Katarina vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Katarina
based on 3,667 Katarina vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Irelia
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some important Katarina versus Irelia matchup stats that can help you explain the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Irelia..
Katarina usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Irelia
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Who is Better, Katarina or Irelia?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Irelia, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter to Irelia.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Irelia, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Ireliaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Irelia. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Irelia. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Katarina versus Irelia build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Irelia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Irelia with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Irelia as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Katarina vs Irelia matchups, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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