Caitlyn with Irelia
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Irelia
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Caitlyn Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Irelia
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn 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, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Irelia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Irelia helps Caitlyn perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn is an ally to Irelia, she sees a little drop in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Irelia does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with 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 with Irelia.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Irelia on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of covering Caitlyn during team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no one best ally for Caitlyn that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Irelia is a very typical companion for Caitlyn. By locking into the same team as Caitlyn, she raises their win rate by 0.4% to 49.7%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Caitlyn and Irelia that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be careful when arranging Irelia teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Caitlyn and Irelia together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of tankyness. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Irelia ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to synergize with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Caitlyn and Irelia synergy build include Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Caitlyn used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Irelia than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Irelia with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
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