Lucian with Sylas
How to Synergize Lucian and Sylas
based on 8,163 Lucian with Sylas pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lucian Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Lucian vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Sylas
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a very large drop in his 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 Lucian perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian plays on the same team as Sylas, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Sylas does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played alongside Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sylas.
Additionally, when Lucian 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 may mean that Sylas does a decent job of covering Lucian in team fights.
Synergies between Lucian and Sylas
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no one best champion pairing for Lucian that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Sylas is a very typical teammate for Lucian. By playing on the same side as Lucian, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 47.9%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Lucian and Sylas that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means Lucian players don't need to be very careful when lining up Sylas comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Lucian and Sylas together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lucian in order to pair well with Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Lucian and Sylas synergy build include Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Stormrazor. When Lucian included at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Sylas than with many other common builds. In fact, Lucian had an average win rate of 47.9% when playing alongside Sylas with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Lucian and Sylas pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Sylas with Lucian are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.