Sylas with Karma
How to Synergize Sylas and Karma
based on 2,883 Sylas with Karma pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sylas Karma Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Karma
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Sylas Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Karma. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Karma helps Sylas perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is paired with Karma, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Karma supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played alongside Karma on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Karma.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Karma on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Karma does a decent job of protecting Sylas during team fights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Karma?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Sylas that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Karma is a not very good ally for Sylas. By playing on the same side as Sylas, she lowers their win rate by -2.5% to 46.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Sylas and Karma that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Karma has a lower difficulty than Sylas. That means Sylas players don't need to be careful when arranging Karma teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Sylas players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Sylas and Karma together, you will not be providing your team enough AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Karma ally's skill level, you should 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 to work well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Sylas and Karma synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Sylas bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Karma than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 46.5% helping carry Karma with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.5% winrate overall.
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