Rek'Sai with Irelia
How to Synergize Rek'Sai and Irelia
based on 479 Rek'Sai with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rek'Sai Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Rek'Sai vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rek'Sai and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Rek'Sai with Irelia
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
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.
Rek'Sai Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Rek'Sai in LoL
The Rek'Sai 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, Rek'Sai sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Irelia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Irelia helps Rek'Sai perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rek'Sai tries to synergize with Irelia, he sees a noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Irelia does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Rek'Sai is played with Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Irelia.
Moreover, when Rek'Sai plays with Irelia on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of covering Rek'Sai in teamfights.
Synergies between Rek'Sai and Irelia
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Is Rek'Sai better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no one best ally for Rek'Sai that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Irelia is a good teammate for Rek'Sai. By playing on the same side as Rek'Sai, she increases their win rate by 2.5% to 50.9%. This shows that there is a good strategic relationship between Rek'Sai and Irelia that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Irelia has a greater difficulty than Rek'Sai. That means Rek'Sai players need to be very careful when arranging Irelia comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Rek'Sai and Irelia together, you may not be granting your team enough magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rek'Sai in order to pair well with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Rek'Sai and Irelia synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Rek'Sai used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Irelia than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Rek'Sai boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Rek'Sai players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Rek'Sai and Irelia pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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