Kayn with Irelia
How to Synergize Kayn and Irelia
based on 4,243 Kayn with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kayn Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Irelia
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kayn sees a very large drop in his 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 Kayn perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is paired with Irelia, he gets a noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Irelia doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played together with Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Irelia.
Moreover, when Kayn plays with Irelia on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Kayn during team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no perfect ally for Kayn that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Irelia is a very typical ally for Kayn. By locking into the same side as Kayn, she lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 48.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Kayn and Irelia that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Irelia has a much lower diffuclty than Kayn. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Irelia allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Kayn players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kayn and Irelia together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much magical damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kayn in order to synergize with Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Kayn and Irelia synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Kayn incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Irelia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kayn boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when playing alongside Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Kayn players should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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