Sylas with Akali
How to Synergize Sylas and Akali
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Sylas Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Akali
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
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.
Sylas Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sylas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Akali helps Sylas perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is paired with Akali, he observes a noticable drop in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Akali does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played alongside Akali 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 synergisticly with Akali.
Additionally, when Sylas plays with Akali on the same side, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Akali does a poor job of protecting Sylas during team fights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Akali?
There is no ideal synergy for Sylas that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Akali is a very bad teammate for Sylas. By locking into the same team as Sylas, she drops their win rate by -5.7% to 43.3%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Sylas and Akali that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Akali allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Sylas and Akali together, you will not be giving your side a lot of support. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Akali ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Sylas to pair well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Sylas and Akali synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Akali than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 43.3% when playing alongside Akali with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.3% winrate overall.
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