Yone vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Yone
based on 6,725 Yone vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yone vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Yone vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Yone
Advice to Win Against Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Yone vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Yone in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some critical Yone vs. Irelia counter stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between the two. For instance, Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Irelia..
Yone typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Irelia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yone and Irelia
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Who is Better, Yone or Irelia?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yone usually fairs equally well when taking on Irelia, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Yone makes an ok counter to Irelia.
While Yone does have a lower winrate compared to Irelia, when they face off with one another, Yone also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Yone into Ireliaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yone also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yone vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Yone is a somewhat poor counter to Irelia. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Yone against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Yone to counter Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Irelia. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Yone versus Irelia build include Guardian Angel, Death's Dance, and Kraken Slayer. When Yone included at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Irelia than with many other common item sets. In fact, Yone had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing against Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Irelia as Yone, Yone players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Yone vs Irelia counters, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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