Irelia with Master Yi
How to Synergize Irelia and Master Yi
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Irelia Master Yi Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Master Yi
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Master Yi
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 Master Yi Will Play
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
Irelia Master Yi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Master Yi as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 Master Yi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Master Yi helps Irelia perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia tries to synergize with Master Yi, she observes a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Master Yi does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played alongside Master Yi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Master Yi. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Master Yi.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Master Yi on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Master Yi does a decent job of covering Irelia during team fights.
Synergies between Irelia and Master Yi
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Master Yi?
There is no one best companion for Irelia that will always be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Master Yi is a below average companion for Irelia. By being on the same side as Irelia, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 48.7%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Irelia and Master Yi that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Master Yi has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Master Yi comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Irelia players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Irelia and Master Yi together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough support. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Master Yi ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 work well with Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Irelia and Master Yi synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Master Yi than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 48.7% helping carry Master Yi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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