Irelia with Leona
How to Synergize Irelia and Leona
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Irelia Leona Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Leona
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Irelia Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Leona helps Irelia perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia tries to synergize with Leona, she gets a small increase in her full damage dealt. This may signal that Leona provides protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played with Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Leona.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Leona on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Leona does a decent job of protecting Irelia in teamfights.
Synergies between Irelia and Leona
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Leona?
There is no perfect ally for Irelia that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, overall, Leona is a good ally for Irelia. By locking into the same team as Irelia, she improves their win rate by 2.5% to 52.3%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Irelia and Leona that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Leona has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Leona comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Irelia players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Combined, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Irelia and Leona together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Leona teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to pair well with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Irelia and Leona synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Irelia combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Leona than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 52.3% when playing alongside Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
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