Vladimir vs Irelia Counter Pick

One detail runs in Vladimir’s favour and deserves naming first: Defiant Dance reduces the physical damage Irelia takes while she charges, and Vladimir deals none of it. That mismatch does not carry the matchup, and the record is clear at 43.7% across 471 games on patch 16.13.1.

• Ionian Fervor stacks attack speed whenever Irelia strikes enemies with spells and adds on-hit damage at maximum stacks, which is punishing against 24 base armor.
• Bladesurge refreshes its cooldown when the target is Marked or dies to it, so the 200 against 450 range difference collapses inside one sequence.
• Flawless Duet stuns anything caught between two converging blades, and Vanguard’s Edge marks targets again after the blades explode outward.

Vladimir’s structure suits a longer fight than Irelia usually permits. Transfusion steals life and grows considerably stronger when Crimson Rush is full, Sanguine Pool supplies two seconds of untargetability against a champion whose damage is almost entirely close range, and Hemoplague raises everything after it. Irelia is the heavier of the two at 630 health and 36 armor against 600 and 24, ending at 2,585 and 115.9 to 2,470 and 100.5, and her mixed damage means magic resist is not a complete answer either. Difficulty reads 5 against 7. Kits: Vladimir, Irelia.