Irelia with Kayn
How to Synergize Irelia and Kayn
based on 4,243 Irelia with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Irelia Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kayn helps Irelia perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia is paired with Kayn, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Kayn provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with Kayn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kayn.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Kayn on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kayn does a poor job of protecting Irelia in team fights.
Synergies between Irelia and Kayn
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no ideal ally for Irelia that will always be her top teammate. However, Kayn is a relatively poor teammate for Irelia. By being on the same side as Irelia, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 48.3%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Irelia and Kayn that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kayn has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means you must be careful when lining up Kayn comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Irelia players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Irelia and Kayn together, you will not be giving your team a lot of AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kayn ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Additional Information for Irelia Players
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Irelia in order to synergize with Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Irelia and Kayn synergy build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Kayn than with most other common builds. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 48.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kayn with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Irelia players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Kayn with Irelia are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.