Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several important Sylas against Lissandra matchup statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lissandra..
Sylas often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Lissandra. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually wins when trying to fight Lissandra, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Sylas makes a good counter to Lissandra.
While Sylas does have a higher winrate compared to Lissandra, when facing one another, Sylas also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Sylas into Lissandra.
Moreover, Sylas has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Lissandra matchups, Sylas is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Sylas is a decent counter for Lissandra. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Sylas against Lissandra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to counter Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas typically racks up less CS compared to Lissandra. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sylas versus Lissandra build include Night Harvester, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When Sylas incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Lissandra than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Lissandra with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Lissandra as Sylas, Sylas players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Sylas vs Lissandra counters, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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