Irelia with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Irelia and Lee Sin
based on 2,660 Irelia with Lee Sin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Lee Sin Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Lee Sin Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Irelia Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Irelia Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lee Sin helps Irelia perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia is paired with Lee Sin, she observes a small decrease in her full damage output. This difference may indicate that Lee Sin does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played alongside Lee Sin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Lee Sin.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Lee Sin on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Lee Sin does a decent job of protecting Irelia during teamfights.
Synergies between Irelia and Lee Sin
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Irelia better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Irelia that will always be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Lee Sin is a not very good teammate for Irelia. By playing on the same team as Irelia, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 47.7%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Irelia and Lee Sin that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Lee Sin has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players need to be very careful when enlisting Lee Sin teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, Irelia players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Irelia and Lee Sin together, you will not be granting your team a lot of AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Lee Sin ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
Other Champion Matchups Against Irelia
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Irelia Players
How We Calculated Our Irelia Lee Sin Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Irelia to pair well with Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Irelia and Lee Sin synergy build include Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Lee Sin than with most other common item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Lee Sin with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Irelia players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Irelia and Lee Sin pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Lee Sin with Irelia are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.