Sylas with Illaoi
How to Synergize Sylas and Illaoi
based on 2,008 Sylas with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sylas Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Sylas vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
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.
Sylas Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Illaoi helps Sylas perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is paired with Illaoi, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Illaoi does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played alongside Illaoi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Illaoi.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Illaoi on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Illaoi does a poor job of protecting Sylas during team fights.
Synergies between Sylas and Illaoi
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no top companion for Sylas that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Illaoi is a top-tier teammate for Sylas. By being on the same side as Sylas, she raises their win rate by 3.1% to 50.8%. This demonstrates that there is an important bond between Sylas and Illaoi that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Sylas. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Illaoi comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Sylas players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Sylas and Illaoi together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of support. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 truly master Sylas in order to work well with Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Sylas and Illaoi synergy build include Everfrost, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Shadowflame. When Sylas included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Illaoi than with many other common item sets. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 50.8% helping carry Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Sylas players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
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