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Illaoi with Sylas

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How to Synergize Illaoi and Sylas

based on 2,241 Illaoi with Sylas pairs
Win Rate
48.5 %
K/D/A
1.44
Pick Rate
3.1 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

We pull data from from millions of LoL games directly from Riot Games each week. Illaoi has fought alongside Sylas in 2241 recent, competitive games. By accumulating so much accurate data from the publishers of League, we feel confident that we can present to you high quality, accurate builds to help Illaoi play with Sylas. It is relatively rare for Illaoi to play alongside Sylas on the same team. This pairing has only taken place in approximately 3.1% of rounds with Illaoi.

Illaoi Sylas Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Illaoi does a poor job of synergizing with Sylas. Usually, she wins an acceptable 48.5% of games the champs try and work together in. If you want to do better as Illaoi when playing alongside Sylas by figuring out how to better synergize your strategy with him, then look into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Illaoi vs Sylas Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionTear of the Goddess

Early Items

~5 Mins
BootsTunneler

Core Illaoi Items

~22 Mins
Sterak's GageBlack CleaverSundered Sky

Optional Items

Spear of ShojinSpirit VisageJak'Sho, The ProteanHullbreaker

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Illaoi to level upe
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Second ability for Illaoi to level upq
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Last skill for Illaoi to max outw

Runes

ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishBone PlatingOvergrowth
PrecisionPresence of MindLast Stand
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Illaoi's passive ability p
Illaoi's q ability q
Illaoi's w ability w
Illaoi's e ability e
Illaoi's ultimate ability r
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Q
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E
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W
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E
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E
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Sylas

Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Sylas

Vessel

Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.

Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a

is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.

Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.

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.

Illaoi Sylas Synergy Stats

Illaoi Image
Win Rate
48.5 %
VS
Win Rate
51.5 %
Sylas Image
5.2
< Kills >
5.3
6.6
< Deaths >
6.7
4.3
< Assists >
4.4
1.15
< Killing Sprees >
1.21
191
< Minions Killed >
190
0.06
< Dragons Killed >
0.05
0.53
< Inhibitors >
0.57
24,330
< Physical Damage >
24,827
808
< Magic Damage >
835
411
< True Damage >
407
25,550
< Damage Dealt >
26,070
35,046
< Damage Taken >
35,928
11,952
< Gold Earned >
12,040
2.83
< Towers >
2.79
0.01
< Baron Takedowns >
0.02
8,494
< Total Healing >
8,841
15,214
< Experience >
15,333
16
< Vision Score >
16
8
< Wards Placed >
8
439
< Time Dealing CC >
432

How to Play with Sylas as Illaoi in LoL

The Illaoi 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, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Sylas helps Illaoi perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.

When Illaoi is paired with Sylas, she sees a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This could indicate that Sylas does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Sylas.

Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Sylas on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Sylas does a decent job of covering Illaoi in team fights.

Synergies between Illaoi and Sylas

Damage Types Compared

Illaoi
Sylas
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Illaoi
Sylas

Is Illaoi better when played alongside Sylas?

There is no ideal champion pairing for Illaoi that will always be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Sylas is a relatively poor ally for Illaoi. By being on the same team as Illaoi, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 48.5%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Illaoi and Sylas that results in them performing not as well together than alone.

Sylas has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means Illaoi players should be careful when enlisting Sylas comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.

Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.

Although, by bringing Illaoi and Sylas together, you will not be providing your team much support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.

Regardless of your Sylas ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.

Additional Information for Illaoi Players

How We Calculated Our Illaoi Sylas Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Illaoi and Sylas, we analyzed 2,241 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Illaoi with Sylas comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to work well with Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.

The most important items to have in your Illaoi and Sylas synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Sylas than with many other common item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 48.5% when playing alongside Sylas with these items in her kit.

To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Illaoi and Sylas pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.

If you need to see Illaoi with Sylas cooperations tips and stats for a an individual division rank, please select one from the selection menu above. If viewing for the first time, the statistics and tips and suggestions given are computed using all games completed with both champs.