Irelia with Akali
How to Synergize Irelia and Akali
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Irelia Akali Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Akali
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Irelia Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Irelia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akali helps Irelia perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia plays on the same team as Akali, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This could signal that Akali supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Akali on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Akali does a poor job of covering Irelia during team fights.
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top synergy for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Akali is a below average ally for Irelia. By locking into the same side as Irelia, she drops their win rate by -1.1% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Irelia and Akali that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players need to be cautious when lining up Akali teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Irelia players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Irelia and Akali together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Akali ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Irelia in order to synergize with Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to focus on in your Irelia and Akali synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Irelia combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Akali than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when playing alongside Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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