Irelia
Hardest matchups for Irelia in Top (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Malphite, 
Warwick, 
Sett. Easiest: 
Smolder, 
Varus, 
Kalista.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into IreliaOn the pro tier list
Irelia on patch 16.22
- Top50.6%#37 of 103B11,554 games
- Mid48.2%#78 of 91C6,335 games
- steady since 16.21
Irelia’s main role on patch 16.22 is Top: a 50.6% win rate across 11,554 Emerald games, #37 of 103 Top champions on the tier list (grade B), picked in 4.7% of games. Irelia is also played Mid: a 48.2% win rate across 6,335 games, #78 of 91. Since patch 16.21, Irelia Top has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.2 points across 72,452 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top61% of its games | B | 50.1%50.1% raw ±0.5 | 33,320 | 4.8%14.3% banned | 51.8%48.0% first time |
| Mid37% of its games | C | 48.6%48.5% raw ±0.7 | 20,483 | 2.9%14.2% banned | 50.5%45.5% first time |
| Bot1% of its games | too few games | 48.1%45.8% raw ±3.5 | 790 | 0.1%14.2% banned | 50.6%46.4% first time |
| Support0% of its games | too few games | 48.9%34.2% raw ±11.5 | 73 | 0.0%14.2% banned | 50.6%47.0% first time |
| Jungle0% of its games | too few games | 49.5%37.8% raw ±16.1 | 37 | 0.0%14.3% banned | 51.2%47.1% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Irelia’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Irelia, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Irelia
Lane leads and team bans
What Irelia’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Irelia than the other team does in the same games (229,571 games). The other team banned before Irelia was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Irelia was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Irelia is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- On-hit
51.9%32,322 games - AP burst
49.2%175 games - Crit
51.4%102 games - AD bruiser
51.7%18 games - AP sustained
51.7%3 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Irelia does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
35,764 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Ignite50.4% · 27,573 games
ConquerorPrecision + Resolve · 49.5%
Triumph · Legend: Alacrity · Last Stand · Bone Plating · OvergrowthShards: Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health
Start: Doran's Blade + Health Potion · 52.2%
Key items: Blade of The Ruined King → Hullbreaker · 53.2%
Boots: Mercury's Treads · 52.3%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Ignite50.4%27,573 games · 77% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Exhaust + Flash49.7%5,326 games · 15% pick rate · same players: −0.2 pts vs the usual
Flash + Teleport47.1%2,690 games · 7.5% pick rate · same players: −2.2 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Keystones
- Conqueror + Resolve49.5%9,813 games · 27% pick rate · same players: +0.0 pts vs the usualRecommended
Conqueror + Inspiration50.3%24,599 games · 69% pick rate · the usual choice
Minor runes with Conqueror
- Triumph49.9%97% take it
Presence of Mind53.5%2.6% take it
- Legend: Alacrity50.0%99% take it
- Last Stand50.1%97% take it
- Bone Plating49.4%90% take it
- Overgrowth52.2%13% take it
Unflinching49.3%75% take it
Second Wind51.7%7.6% take it
Revitalize50.1%7.5% take it
Demolish44.6%5.1% take it
- Attack Speed50.1%98% take it
- Adaptive Force50.0%99% take it
- Health50.2%71% take it
- Health Scaling49.4%27% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Irelia’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Irelia’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Irelia does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Irelia wins 46.1%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.8%. That gap ranks it 47 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 140K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Irelia in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | 51.9%22W 9L | 3%3% in any lane | 71% counter | +1,797 gold | — |
| Mid | 49.8%1W 2L | 0%3% in any lane | 100% counter | +1,026 gold | — |
How much knowing Irelia pays
Players on their Mastery band win 6.7 points more on Irelia than first-timers do: #47 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Irelia players win 52.8%: #55 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 56.5% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
IreliaDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Irelia ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Akali, Nasus, Renekton.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.