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How to Synergize Irelia with Nidalee on the Same TeamIrelia is in the b tier of champions

Irelia with Nidalee

How to Win With Irelia and Nidalee Paired TogetherIrelia is in the b tier of champions
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How to Synergize Irelia and Nidalee

based on 754 Irelia with Nidalee pairs
Win Rate
47.3 %
K/D/A
1.75
Pick Rate
0.7 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers download data from from millions of LoL matches straight from Riot Games each week. Irelia has fought alongside Nidalee in 754 recently played, competitive games. By pooling so much complete data straight from the creators of League, we are confident that we can give you high quality, insightful builds to help Irelia play with Nidalee. It is very rare for Irelia to play alongside Nidalee as allies. This has only taken place in approx. 0.7% of rounds with Irelia.

Irelia Nidalee Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Irelia does a below average job of synergizing with Nidalee. On average, she wins a dismal 47.3% of the time the champs fight together on the same side. If you want to do better as Irelia when playing with Nidalee by learning how to better synergize your strategy with her, then review the complete build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Irelia vs Nidalee Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
BootsVampiric Scepter

Core Irelia Items

~22 Mins
Wit's EndBlade of The Ruined KingSundered Sky

Optional Items

Sterak's GageExperimental HexplateDeath's DanceTerminus

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Irelia to level upq
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Second ability for Irelia to level upw
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Last skill for Irelia to max oute

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
ResolveBone PlatingUnflinching
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceArmor
Irelia's passive ability p
Irelia's q ability q
Irelia's w ability w
Irelia's e ability e
Irelia's ultimate ability r
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Q
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E
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W
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Q
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Q
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Q
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Nidalee

Tips for Playing as Irelia with Nidalee

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 Nidalee Will Play

Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.

Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.

Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.

Irelia Nidalee Synergy Stats

Irelia Image
Win Rate
47.3 %
VS
Win Rate
52.7 %
Nidalee Image
7.1
< Kills >
7.3
6.8
< Deaths >
7
4.8
< Assists >
5
1.56
< Killing Sprees >
1.66
212
< Minions Killed >
206
0.11
< Dragons Killed >
0.1
0.48
< Inhibitors >
0.47
16,168
< Physical Damage >
16,208
5,978
< Magic Damage >
6,139
788
< True Damage >
751
22,935
< Damage Dealt >
23,099
31,549
< Damage Taken >
31,302
12,953
< Gold Earned >
12,894
2.34
< Towers >
2.3
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.03
10,951
< Total Healing >
10,768
15,075
< Experience >
15,027
16
< Vision Score >
17
8
< Wards Placed >
8
115
< Time Dealing CC >
113

How to Play with Nidalee as Irelia in LoL

The Irelia Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Irelia perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Irelia tries to synergize with Nidalee, she sees a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Nidalee doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played alongside Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.

Moreover, when Irelia plays with Nidalee on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Nidalee does a poor job of protecting Irelia during team fights.

Synergies between Irelia and Nidalee

Damage Types Compared

Irelia
Nidalee
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Irelia
Nidalee

Is Irelia better when played alongside Nidalee?

There is no one best champion pairing for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, overall, Nidalee is a not very good ally for Irelia. By locking into the same team as Irelia, she drops their win rate by -2.5% to 47.3%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Irelia and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than alone.

Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means you must be careful when arranging Nidalee allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.

Playing cooperatively, Irelia players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.

Conversely, by pairing Irelia and Nidalee together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.

Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.

Additional Information for Irelia Players

How We Calculated Our Irelia Nidalee Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Irelia and Nidalee, we analyzed 754 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Irelia with Nidalee comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia in order to work well with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.

The ideal items to use in your Irelia and Nidalee synergy build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 47.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nidalee with these items in her kit.

To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Irelia players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.3% win rate overall.

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