Lux vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Lux
based on 12,109 Lux vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Sylas
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 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!
Lux vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Lux in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Lux versus Sylas matchup stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sylas’s ratio of NaN, showing that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Sylas. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Lux typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Sylas. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lux and Sylas
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Who is Better, Lux or Sylas?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Lux usually wins when taking on Sylas, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Lux makes a good counter for Sylas.
While Lux does have a higher win rate compared to Sylas, when they face off with one another, Lux also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Lux into Sylas.
Furthermore, Lux also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sylas. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lux vs Sylas matchups, Lux is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Lux is a decent counter for Sylas. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lux against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lux to counter Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Sylas. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Lux versus Sylas build include Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Lux bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs Sylas than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 51.2% when playing against Sylas with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Sylas as Lux, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Lux vs Sylas matchups, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% winrate overall.
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