Lux with Irelia
How to Synergize Lux and Irelia
based on 9,317 Lux with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lux Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Lux with Irelia
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Lux in LoL
The Lux 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, Lux 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 Lux perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lux plays on the same team as Irelia, she observes a small decrease in her complete damage output. This difference could signal that Irelia doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played alongside Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Irelia.
Additionally, when Lux plays with Irelia on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Lux during teamfights.
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Is Lux better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no top ally for Lux that will always be her ideal ally. However, Irelia is a very typical companion for Lux. By being on the same side as Lux, she improves their win rate by 0.3% to 50.1%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Lux and Irelia that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Lux. That means Lux players don't need to be very careful when finding Irelia teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Lux players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Lux and Irelia together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much cover. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Irelia teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lux to work well with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Lux and Irelia synergy build consist of Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Horizon Focus. When Lux incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Irelia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 50.1% helping carry Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Lux players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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