Kalista with Irelia
How to Synergize Kalista and Irelia
based on 904 Kalista with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kalista Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Irelia
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Advice to Understand How Irelia Will Play
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.
Kalista Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kalista sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Irelia. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Irelia helps Kalista perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista plays on the same team as Irelia, she gets a little decrease in her total damage output. This difference may indicate that Irelia does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played alongside Irelia 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 Irelia.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Irelia on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Kalista during team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Irelia
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no top champion pairing for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Irelia is a good ally for Kalista. By being on the same side as Kalista, she improves their win rate by 1.3% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is a good strategic relationship between Kalista and Irelia that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Irelia allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kalista and Irelia together, you may not be granting your team very much support. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Irelia teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to work well with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Kalista and Irelia synergy build consist of Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Irelia than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when playing alongside Irelia with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Kalista players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Irelia with Kalista are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.