Vel'Koz vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Vel'Koz
based on 2,438 Vel'Koz vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Sylas
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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!
Vel'Koz vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some vital Vel'Koz against Sylas counter stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sylas’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sylas..
Vel'Koz typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Sylas. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Sylas
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Sylas?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when playing against Sylas, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter to Sylas.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher win rate than Sylas, when facing one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Vel'Koz into Sylasas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vel'Koz also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sylas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz vs Sylas matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter to Sylas. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vel'Koz against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vel'Koz to counter Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Sylas. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Sylas build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Horizon Focus, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Sylas than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when playing against Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Sylas as Vel'Koz, Vel'Koz players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Vel'Koz vs Sylas clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
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