Irelia with Gwen
How to Synergize Irelia and Gwen
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Irelia Gwen Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Irelia Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gwen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gwen helps Irelia perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia is an ally to Gwen, she gets a barely noticable drop in her total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Gwen does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with Gwen on the same team, 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 Gwen.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Gwen on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Gwen does a decent job of covering Irelia in teamfights.
Synergies between Irelia and Gwen
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Irelia that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Gwen is a pretty good ally for Irelia. By playing on the same team as Irelia, she raises their win rate by 1.6% to 51.4%. This shows that there is a good strategic relationship between Irelia and Gwen that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Gwen has a lower difficulty than Irelia. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Gwen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Irelia and Gwen together, you probably will not be giving your team very much cover. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gwen teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to pair well with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Irelia and Gwen synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Gwen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 51.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Gwen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Irelia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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