Yuumi vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Yuumi
based on 2,270 Yuumi vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yuumi vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Yuumi vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Yuumi
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.
Yuumi vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Yuumi in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some vital Yuumi against Irelia counter statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Irelia. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Yuumi typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Irelia. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yuumi and Irelia
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Who is Better, Yuumi or Irelia?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when trying to fight Irelia, with a 44.3% win rate. Therefore, Yuumi makes a bad counter to Irelia.
While Yuumi does have a much lower win rate than Irelia, when on opposite teams, Yuumi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Yuumi into Irelia.
Furthermore, Yuumi also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Yuumi is a garbage counter for Irelia. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Yuumi against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yuumi to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Irelia. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Yuumi versus Irelia build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Imperial Mandate. When Yuumi incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Irelia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Yuumi boasted an average winrate of 44.3% when countering Irelia with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Irelia as Yuumi, Yuumi players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Yuumi vs Irelia counters, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.3% win rate overall.
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