Irelia with Kalista
How to Synergize Irelia and Kalista
based on 904 Irelia with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Kalista Counter Build
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Core Irelia Items
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Kalista
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.
Advice to Understand How Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Irelia Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kalista helps Irelia perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia tries to synergize with Kalista, she sees a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This may indicate that Kalista does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with Kalista on the same team, 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 synergisticly with Kalista.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Kalista on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Kalista does a decent job of covering Irelia in team fights.
Synergies between Irelia and Kalista
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Irelia that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Kalista is a not very good companion for Irelia. By locking into the same side as Irelia, she lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Irelia and Kalista that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kalista has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means you should be very careful when lining up Kalista comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Irelia and Kalista together, you will not be granting your side a lot of support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Kalista ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Additional Information for Irelia Players
How We Calculated Our Irelia Kalista Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Irelia to synergize with Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Irelia and Kalista synergy build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Kalista than with most other common item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing alongside Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating 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. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Kalista with Irelia are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.