Kindred vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Kindred
based on 2,450 Kindred vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Sylas
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Advice to Win Against Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Kindred vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Kindred in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several influential Kindred vs. Sylas counter stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sylas’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Sylas..
Kindred normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Sylas. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kindred and Sylas
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Who is Better, Kindred or Sylas?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kindred usually loses when taking on Sylas, with a 48.8% win rate. As a result, Kindred makes a poor counter to Sylas.
While Kindred does have a lower winrate compared to Sylas, when on opposite teams, Kindred also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kindred into Sylas.
Furthermore, Kindred has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sylas. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Sylas matchups, Sylas is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kindred is a somewhat poor counter for Sylas. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kindred against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kindred in order to counter Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred typically accumulates a lot less CS as Sylas. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Kindred versus Sylas build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Terminus. When Kindred combined at least these three items in their build, they performed much better vs Sylas than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kindred boasted an average win rate of 48.8% battling Sylas with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Sylas as Kindred, Kindred players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kindred vs Sylas face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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