Karthus with Sylas
How to Synergize Karthus and Sylas
based on 969 Karthus with Sylas pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karthus Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Karthus vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Karthus and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Karthus with Sylas
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
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.
Karthus Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Karthus in LoL
The Karthus Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Karthus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sylas helps Karthus perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Karthus plays on the same team as Sylas, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Sylas does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Karthus is played with Sylas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Sylas.
Additionally, when Karthus plays with Sylas on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Karthus during teamfights.
Synergies between Karthus and Sylas
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Is Karthus better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Karthus that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Sylas is a relatively poor teammate for Karthus. By locking into the same team as Karthus, he drops their win rate by -2.8% to 44.5%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Karthus and Sylas that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Karthus. That means Karthus players don't need to be very careful when lining up Sylas allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Karthus and Sylas together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Sylas teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Karthus to work well with Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Karthus and Sylas synergy build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Karthus included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Sylas than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Karthus boasted an average winrate of 44.5% helping carry Sylas with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.5% winrate overall.
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