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.
The Nilah Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nilah sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Irelia. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Irelia helps Nilah perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nilah plays on the same team as Irelia, they observes a measurable drop in their total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Irelia does not support by providing protection for them to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nilah is played together with Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Irelia.
Additionally, when Nilah plays with Irelia on the same side, they often takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Irelia does a decent job of covering Nilah in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nilah that will always be their best teammate. Yet, Irelia is a very typical ally for Nilah. By playing on the same team as Nilah, she decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 51.8%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Nilah and Irelia that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Irelia has a much lower diffuclty than Nilah. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Irelia allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Nilah and Irelia together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of protection for burst damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Nilah in order to synergize with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Nilah and Irelia synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Immortal Shieldbow, and The Collector. When Nilah incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better as an ally of Irelia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nilah boasted an average win rate of 51.8% when playing alongside Irelia with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.8% winrate overall.
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