Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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 stats provided here clarify some important Singed against Irelia matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Irelia..
Singed often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Irelia. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Singed usually wins when facing off against Irelia, with a 52.6% win rate. As a result, Singed makes a good counter for Irelia.
While Singed does have a higher win rate compared to Irelia, when facing one another, Singed also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Singed into Irelia.
Additionally, Singed has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Singed vs Irelia matchups, Singed is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Singed is an above average counter to Irelia. Focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Singed against Irelia.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Singed to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Irelia. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Singed versus Irelia build consist of Dead Man's Plate, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Singed incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Irelia than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Singed boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when countering Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Irelia as Singed, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Singed vs Irelia counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.6% win rate overall.
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