Lucian with Irelia
How to Synergize Lucian and Irelia
based on 5,794 Lucian with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lucian Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Irelia
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lucian sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Irelia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Irelia helps Lucian perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lucian tries to synergize with Irelia, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Irelia does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played together with Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Irelia.
Additionally, when Lucian plays with Irelia on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Lucian in team fights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no perfect ally for Lucian that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Irelia is a very typical companion for Lucian. By being on the same side as Lucian, she lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 48.4%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Lucian and Irelia that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Irelia comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Lucian and Irelia together, you may not be providing your team much crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Irelia ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lucian to synergize with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Lucian and Irelia synergy build consist of Stormrazor, Bloodsong, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Lucian used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Irelia than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lucian boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when playing alongside Irelia with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Lucian players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.4% winrate overall.
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