Sylas with Katarina
How to Synergize Sylas and Katarina
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Sylas Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Sylas vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Sylas Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Sylas perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is an ally to Katarina, he observes a noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Katarina does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Sylas plays with Katarina on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Katarina does a poor job of protecting Sylas during team fights.
Synergies between Sylas and Katarina
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top ally for Sylas that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Katarina is a not very good companion for Sylas. By locking into the same team as Sylas, she drops their win rate by -2.6% to 46.4%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Sylas and Katarina that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Katarina teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Sylas players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Sylas and Katarina together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sylas in order to pair well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Sylas and Katarina synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sylas boasted an average win rate of 46.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.4% win rate overall.
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