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How to Synergize Irelia with Alistar on the Same TeamIrelia is in the b tier of champions

Irelia with Alistar

How to Win With Irelia and Alistar Paired TogetherIrelia is in the a tier of champions
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How to Synergize Irelia and Alistar

based on 1,641 Irelia with Alistar pairs
Win Rate
48.4 %
K/D/A
1.75
Pick Rate
1.6 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers download the stats from from millions of League of Legends rounds straight from Riot Games each and every week. Irelia has fought alongside Alistar in 1641 recent, ranked matches. By accumulating so much complete data straight from the publishers of League, we are totally sure that we can present to you robust, usable builds to help Irelia synergize with Alistar. It is relatively rare for Irelia to play alongside Alistar as teammates. This has only happened in approximately 1.6% of matches with Irelia.

Irelia Alistar Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Irelia has done a below average job of fighting on the same side as Alistar. Typically, she wins a lowly 48.4% of the time the champions try and work together in. If you want to play better as Irelia when playing with Alistar by figuring out how to better synergize your gameplay with him, then review the complete build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Irelia vs Alistar Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
PickaxeVampiric Scepter

Core Irelia Items

~22 Mins
Blade of The Ruined KingDeath's DanceSundered Sky

Optional Items

Sterak's GageWit's EndTitanic HydraTerminus

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Irelia to level upq
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Second ability for Irelia to level upw
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Last skill for Irelia to max oute

Runes

PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceArmor
Irelia's passive ability p
Irelia's q ability q
Irelia's w ability w
Irelia's e ability e
Irelia's ultimate ability r
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Alistar

Tips for Playing as Irelia with Alistar

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 Alistar Will Play

Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.

Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.

Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.

Irelia Alistar Synergy Stats

Irelia Image
Win Rate
48.4 %
VS
Win Rate
51.6 %
Alistar Image
7.1
< Kills >
7.3
6.8
< Deaths >
7
4.8
< Assists >
5
1.62
< Killing Sprees >
1.66
207
< Minions Killed >
206
0.09
< Dragons Killed >
0.1
0.44
< Inhibitors >
0.47
15,917
< Physical Damage >
16,208
6,011
< Magic Damage >
6,139
686
< True Damage >
751
22,616
< Damage Dealt >
23,099
30,532
< Damage Taken >
31,302
12,720
< Gold Earned >
12,894
2.37
< Towers >
2.3
0.03
< Baron Takedowns >
0.03
10,344
< Total Healing >
10,768
14,699
< Experience >
15,027
16
< Vision Score >
17
8
< Wards Placed >
8
108
< Time Dealing CC >
113

How to Play with Alistar as Irelia in LoL

The Irelia Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Alistar helps Irelia perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Irelia tries to synergize with Alistar, she gets a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Alistar does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Alistar.

Moreover, when Irelia plays with Alistar on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Alistar does a decent job of covering Irelia during teamfights.

Synergies between Irelia and Alistar

Damage Types Compared

Irelia
Alistar
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Irelia
Alistar

Is Irelia better when played alongside Alistar?

There is no top synergy for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Alistar is a below average ally for Irelia. By being on the same side as Irelia, he lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 48.4%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Irelia and Alistar that results in them performing worse together than alone.

Alistar has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players must be very careful when finding Alistar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.

Playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.

In contrast, by pairing Irelia and Alistar together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.

Regardless of your Alistar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.

Additional Information for Irelia Players

How We Calculated Our Irelia Alistar Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Irelia and Alistar, we analyzed 1,641 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Irelia with Alistar comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to pair well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.

The top items to use in your Irelia and Alistar synergy build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia used at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Alistar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 48.4% helping carry Alistar with these items in her kit.

To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Irelia and Alistar pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.4% winrate overall.

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