Sylas vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Sylas
based on 1,542 Sylas vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Taliyah
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.
Advice to Win Against Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Sylas vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Sylas in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several valuable Sylas vs. Taliyah counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taliyah..
Sylas usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Taliyah. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sylas and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Sylas or Taliyah?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually loses when playing against Taliyah, with a 47.1% win rate. Thus, Sylas makes a bad counter to Taliyah.
While Sylas does have a lower winrate compared to Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Sylas also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Sylas into Taliyah.
Furthermore, Sylas also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Sylas is a garbage counter to Taliyah. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sylas against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to counter Taliyah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Taliyah. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Sylas versus Taliyah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Sylas included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Taliyah than with most other common builds. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 47.1% when countering Taliyah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Taliyah as Sylas, Sylas players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Sylas vs Taliyah fights, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.1% win rate overall.
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