Xerath with Irelia
How to Synergize Xerath and Irelia
based on 3,488 Xerath with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Xerath Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Xerath vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Irelia
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.
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.
Xerath Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath 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, Xerath sees a large worsening in his 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 Xerath perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xerath is paired with Irelia, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Irelia doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played together with Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Irelia.
Additionally, when Xerath plays with Irelia on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Xerath during teamfights.
Synergies between Xerath and Irelia
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no one best champion pairing for Xerath that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Irelia is a very typical teammate for Xerath. By locking into the same team as Xerath, she lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 50.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Xerath and Irelia that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Irelia has a much lower diffuclty than Xerath. That means Xerath players don't need to be cautious when arranging Irelia allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Xerath players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Xerath and Irelia together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of engage potential. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your 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 learn all of the intricacies of Xerath in order to work well with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Xerath and Irelia synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Xerath combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Irelia than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xerath boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Irelia with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Irelia with Xerath are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.