Irelia with Lux
How to Synergize Irelia and Lux
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Irelia Lux Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Lux
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Lux
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 Lux Will Play
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Irelia Lux Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lux as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia Lux synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lux, 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 Lux. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Lux helps Irelia perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia is paired with Lux, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This may signal that Lux supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played alongside Lux on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Lux. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Lux.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Lux on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Lux does a poor job of protecting Irelia in team fights.
Synergies between Irelia and Lux
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Lux?
There is no perfect ally for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Lux is a very typical companion for Irelia. By playing on the same team as Irelia, she increases their win rate by 0.3% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Irelia and Lux that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Lux has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Lux teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Irelia and Lux together, you may not be giving your other allies enough protection for burst damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Lux ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Irelia in order to pair well with Lux during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Irelia and Lux synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Lux than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average win rate of 50.1% helping carry Lux with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Irelia players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Lux with Irelia are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.