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.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Rell versus Irelia matchup statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Irelia. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Rell often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Irelia. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rell usually loses when taking on Irelia, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Rell makes a bad counter for Irelia.
While Rell does have a lower winrate compared to Irelia, when on opposite teams, Rell also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rell into Irelia.
Additionally, Rell also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rell vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Rell is a somewhat poor counter for Irelia. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rell against Irelia.
To learn all of the intricacies of Rell in order to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell often racks up a lot less CS relative to Irelia. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Rell versus Irelia build consist of Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Irelia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Rell had an average winrate of 48.2% when playing against Irelia with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Irelia as Rell, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Rell vs Irelia LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Irelia as Rell are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.