Sylas vs Senna
How to Beat Senna as Sylas
based on 9,094 Sylas vs Senna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Senna Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Senna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Senna as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Senna
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.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Sylas vs Senna Counter Stats
How to Counter Senna with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some vital Sylas versus Senna counter stats that may help us explain the differences between these two champs. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Senna’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Senna. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Sylas normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Senna. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Senna
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Who is Better, Sylas or Senna?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sylas usually loses when playing against Senna, with a 48.0% win rate. As a result, Sylas makes a poor counter for Senna.
While Sylas does have a lower win rate than Senna, when they face off with one another, Sylas also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Sylas into Senna.
Furthermore, Sylas has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Senna. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Senna matchups, Senna is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Sylas is a terribly counter for Senna. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Sylas against Senna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sylas in order to counter Senna during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas most often gets more CS compared to Senna. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Sylas versus Senna build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Senna than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average win rate of 48.0% battling Senna with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Senna as Sylas, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Sylas vs Senna LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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