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.
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
The Irelia Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xerath helps Irelia perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia is an ally to Xerath, she observes a small increase in her complete damage output. This may indicate that Xerath supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with Xerath 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 Xerath.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Xerath on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Irelia in team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Irelia that will always be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Xerath is a very typical companion for Irelia. By playing on the same team as Irelia, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 50.5%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Irelia and Xerath that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means you must be very careful when lining up Xerath teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Irelia and Xerath together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of cover. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Xerath ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Irelia in order to pair well with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Irelia and Xerath synergy build include Blade of The Ruined King, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Xerath than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 50.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xerath with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip 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 we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Xerath with Irelia are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.