Leona with Irelia
How to Synergize Leona and Irelia
based on 3,464 Leona with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Leona with Irelia
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Understand How Irelia Will Play
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.
Leona Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Leona in LoL
The Leona Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Irelia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Irelia helps Leona perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona plays on the same team as Irelia, she sees a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Irelia does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Irelia.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Irelia on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Leona in team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Irelia
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Is Leona better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Leona that will no matter what be her top synergy. However, Irelia is a very typical ally for Leona. By locking into the same team as Leona, she raises their win rate by 0.1% to 52.3%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Leona and Irelia that results in them performing better together than alone.
Irelia has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players need to be very careful when arranging Irelia allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Leona players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by bringing Leona and Irelia together, you probably will not be giving your team enough AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona in order to synergize with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Leona and Irelia synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Irelia than with most other typical builds. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 52.3% helping carry Irelia with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Leona and Irelia pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.3% winrate overall.
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