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.
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
The Irelia Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kog'Maw helps Irelia perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia is paired with Kog'Maw, she observes a small increase in her full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Kog'Maw provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with Kog'Maw on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Kog'Maw. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kog'Maw.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Kog'Maw on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of covering Irelia during team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Irelia that will always be her best synergy. However, overall, Kog'Maw is a pretty good teammate for Irelia. By being on the same team as Irelia, he increases their win rate by 2.8% to 52.6%. This signals that there is pretty good synergy between Irelia and Kog'Maw that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players need to be very careful when enlisting Kog'Maw comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Irelia players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Irelia and Kog'Maw together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of protection for burst damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kog'Maw ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to pair well with Kog'Maw during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Irelia and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kog'Maw than with most other typical builds. In fact, Irelia had an average win rate of 52.6% when playing alongside Kog'Maw with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Irelia and Kog'Maw pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Kog'Maw with Irelia are presented for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.