Akali with Sylas
How to Synergize Akali and Sylas
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Akali Sylas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Akali with Sylas
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Sylas Will Play
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.
Akali Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Akali in LoL
The Akali Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sylas helps Akali perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is an ally to Sylas, she gets a little drop in her full damage output. This could indicate that Sylas does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Sylas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Sylas on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Akali in team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no ideal ally for Akali that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, overall, Sylas is a very bad ally for Akali. By being on the same side as Akali, he decreases their win rate by -5.8% to 43.3%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Akali and Sylas that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be careful when lining up Sylas teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Akali players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Akali and Sylas together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much crowd control. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to synergize with Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Akali and Sylas synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali bought at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Sylas than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 43.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Sylas with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Akali and Sylas pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 43.3% winrate overall.
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