How to beat Irelia

Common role: Top / Mid

A snowballing skirmisher who dashes through minions and stuns with her flag.

What makes Irelia dangerous

Irelia resets her Q dash on marked units and low-health targets, weaving in and out of fights while healing. Her W blocks damage while charging, and her ultimate is a wall of blades that damages and sets up a stun (E). Once she snowballs and hits her item spikes, she duels almost anyone and dives the backline.

How to play against Irelia

• 1Deny her Q resets: don't let her last-hit low minions with Q, and avoid fighting when she can dash to marks. A resource-starved Irelia is stuck in place.
• 2Dodge her E stun — she throws her flag, then dashes to it to stun everyone between. Break the line or sidestep and her all-in loses its lockdown.
• 3Her W blocks damage while she channels it. Don't dump your burst into her W — bait it, then trade while it's on cooldown.
• 4Punish her weak early game before her items. Irelia is mediocre at levels 1-5; trade hard and deny her the lead she needs to snowball.

Weaknesses to exploit

• ✓Weak early game before item spikes.
• ✓Falls off if denied Q resets and kills.
• ✓E stun is dodgeable — break the flag line.
• ✓Squishy skirmisher; hard CC and burst punish her.

Abilities & how to counter them

What each of Irelia's abilities does — and how to play around it.

• P
  아이오니아의 열정

  이렐리아의 스킬이 적에게 적중하면 중첩이 쌓이며, 중첩에 따라 추가 공격 속도가 적용됩니다. 최대 중첩이 쌓이면 적중 시 피해도 증가합니다.

• Q
  칼날 쇄도

  이렐리아가 돌진해 대상을 공격하고 체력을 회복합니다. 대상에게 표식이 있거나 칼날 쇄도로 적을 처치하면 칼날 쇄도의 재사용 대기시간이 초기화됩니다.

  Strong: dashes and resets on marked/low units, weaving through fights. Weak: no valid target means no dash — deny her Q resets and she's stuck.

• W
  저항의 춤

  이렐리아가 칼날에 힘을 충전한 뒤 공격합니다. 충전 중에는 이렐리아가 받는 물리 피해량이 감소하며 충전을 오래 할수록 공격이 강력해집니다.

  Strong: blocks damage while she channels it. Weak: don't dump burst into it — bait it, then trade while it's on cooldown.

• E
  쌍검협무

  이렐리아가 칼날 두 개를 던진 후 두 칼날이 서로를 향해 날아갑니다. 날아가는 칼날에 맞은 적은 피해를 입으며 기절한 뒤 표식이 생깁니다.

  Strong: throws a flag and dashes to it to stun everyone between. Weak: break the line or sidestep and her all-in loses its lockdown.

• R
  선봉진격검

  이렐리아가 칼날 다발을 발사합니다. 적 챔피언에게 적중하면 칼날 다발이 넓게 펼쳐지며 이때 칼날에 적중한 모든 적에게 피해를 주고 표식을 남깁니다. 또한 칼날이 형성한 결계를 적이 통과하면 피해를 입고 둔화됩니다.

Itemization

Irelia is AD with true-damage passive and healing. Grievous Wounds cuts her sustain, Plated Steelcaps and armor blunt her, and hard CC that isn't blocked by her W shuts down her all-in. Ranged laners should abuse her before level 6.

This guide covers Irelia's core kit and playstyle — advice that holds up across patches.