Sylas with Aphelios
How to Synergize Sylas and Aphelios
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Sylas Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Sylas vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Sylas Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Sylas perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas plays on the same team as Aphelios, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Aphelios does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Aphelios.
Additionally, when Sylas plays with Aphelios on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Sylas in team fights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best companion for Sylas that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a relatively poor ally for Sylas. By being on the same side as Sylas, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 47.5%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Sylas and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Sylas. That means Sylas players need to be very careful when finding Aphelios allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Sylas and Aphelios together, you may not be granting your team enough support. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Aphelios teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sylas to work well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Sylas and Aphelios synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Sylas incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Sylas players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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