Gwen with Irelia
How to Synergize Gwen and Irelia
based on 1,700 Gwen with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Irelia
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen 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, Gwen sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Irelia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Irelia helps Gwen perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen is paired with Irelia, she gets a small decrease in her total damage output. This could demonstrate that Irelia does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played with Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Irelia.
Moreover, when Gwen plays with Irelia on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Irelia does a poor job of protecting Gwen in teamfights.
Synergies between Gwen and Irelia
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Gwen that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, overall, Irelia is a fantastic companion for Gwen. By locking into the same team as Gwen, she raises their win rate by 3.3% to 51.4%. This shows that there is a very real synergy between Gwen and Irelia that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Gwen. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Irelia teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Gwen and Irelia together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of tankyness. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gwen in order to work well with Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Gwen and Irelia synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Riftmaker. When Gwen incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Irelia than with many other common builds. In fact, Gwen had an average win rate of 51.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Gwen players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Gwen and Irelia pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.4% winrate overall.
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