Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
The Irelia Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Irelia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gragas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gragas helps Irelia perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia is an ally to Gragas, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Gragas supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played alongside Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gragas.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Gragas on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Gragas does a poor job of covering Irelia in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Gragas is a very typical teammate for Irelia. By playing on the same team as Irelia, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 49.1%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Irelia and Gragas that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Gragas teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Irelia and Gragas together, you may not be granting your team enough utility. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gragas ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to work well with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Irelia and Gragas synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Death's Dance. When Irelia included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Gragas than with most other common builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 49.1% helping carry Gragas with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Gragas with Irelia are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.