Irelia with Kassadin
How to Synergize Irelia and Kassadin
based on 799 Irelia with Kassadin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Kassadin Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Irelia Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kassadin helps Irelia perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia is an ally to Kassadin, she observes a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Kassadin does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played alongside Kassadin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kassadin.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Kassadin on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Kassadin does a decent job of protecting Irelia in teamfights.
Synergies between Irelia and Kassadin
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no one best synergy for Irelia that will always be her #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Kassadin is a below average companion for Irelia. By being on the same team as Irelia, he decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 47.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Irelia and Kassadin that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players should be cautious when enlisting Kassadin allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Irelia and Kassadin together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to pair well with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Irelia and Kassadin synergy build consist of Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Death's Dance. When Irelia incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Kassadin than with most other typical builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Kassadin with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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