Vladimir vs Irelia Counter Pick

Start with the one point in Vladimir’s favour: Defiant Dance cuts the physical damage Irelia takes while she is charging, yet Vladimir has no physical damage to cut. That imbalance does not decide the matchup, which sits at 43.7% across 471 games on patch 16.13.1.

• Ionian Fervor builds attack speed each time Irelia hits enemies with spells, and at full stacks it adds on-hit damage, a real threat against 24 base armor.
• Bladesurge resets its cooldown when the target is Marked or is killed by it, which erases the 200 versus 450 range gap within a single sequence.
• Flawless Duet stuns whatever sits between two converging blades, and Vanguard’s Edge applies a fresh Mark once the blades burst outward.

Vladimir’s kit rewards a longer skirmish than Irelia normally allows. Transfusion heals him and hits harder once Crimson Rush is full, Sanguine Pool grants two seconds of untargetability against a champion whose damage is nearly all melee, and Hemoplague amplifies what follows it. Irelia is the sturdier of the pair, with 630 health and 36 armor to Vladimir’s 600 and 24, finishing at 2,585 and 115.9 against 2,470 and 100.5. Her damage is mixed, so magic resist does not fully solve the problem either. Difficulty is rated 5 for Vladimir and 7 for Irelia. Champion pages: Vladimir, Irelia.