Irelia with Katarina
How to Synergize Irelia and Katarina
based on 2,186 Irelia with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Irelia Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Irelia perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia tries to synergize with Katarina, she sees a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Katarina doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Katarina on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Irelia during team fights.
Synergies between Irelia and Katarina
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, Katarina is a not very good teammate for Irelia. By locking into the same side as Irelia, she lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 48.1%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Irelia and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means you should be very careful when finding Katarina allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, Irelia players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Irelia and Katarina together, you will not be granting your other allies much crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Irelia and Katarina synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Wit's End, and Death's Dance. When Irelia combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with many other common builds. In fact, Irelia had an average win rate of 48.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Katarina with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should equip 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 sets players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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