Irelia

the Blade Dancer

MidPatch 16.17Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

49%

Pick rate

Ban rate

11%

Games

236

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
73%50%172
Flash + Teleport
22%40%52

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
47%58%110
Doran's Blade, Health Potion
39%37%92

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Blade of The Ruined King → Kraken Slayer → Death's Dance
13%—30
Blade of The Ruined King → Hullbreaker → Death's Dance
7.6%—18
Blade of The Ruined King → Wit's End → Death's Dance
6.4%—15

Boots

Plated Steelcaps
37%57%87
Mercury's Treads
33%43%77
Gluttonous Greaves
14%—33

Later items

Not enough games run this long yet to say what goes in the last slots.

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Bladesurge → Defiant Dance → Flawless Duet

83%53%195

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W					W		W		W	W
E		E												E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Matchups

No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.

Counted from 11,768 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.17 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.