Sylas vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Sylas
based on 2,294 Sylas vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Malphite
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.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Advice to Win Against Malphite
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Sylas vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Sylas in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several vital Sylas versus Malphite counter stats that may help us explain the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malphite’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malphite. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Sylas normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Malphite. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sylas and Malphite
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Who is Better, Sylas or Malphite?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sylas usually wins when trying to fight Malphite, with a 55.5% win rate. As a result, Sylas makes a fantastic counter to Malphite.
While Sylas does have a much higher win rate compared to Malphite, when they face off with one another, Sylas also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Sylas into Malphite.
Furthermore, Sylas has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Malphite matchups, Sylas is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Sylas is a great counter to Malphite. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Sylas against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to counter Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Malphite. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sylas versus Malphite build include Everfrost, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Sylas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Malphite than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 55.5% when playing against Malphite with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Malphite as Sylas, Sylas players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Sylas vs Malphite battles, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 55.5% win rate overall.
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