Sylas with Lux
How to Synergize Sylas and Lux
based on 9,120 Sylas with Lux pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sylas Lux Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Lux
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Lux
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 Lux Will Play
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Sylas Lux Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lux as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Lux synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lux, 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 Lux. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lux helps Sylas perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is paired with Lux, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Lux does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played together with Lux 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 with Lux.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Lux on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Lux does a poor job of protecting Sylas during teamfights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Lux?
There is no perfect companion for Sylas that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Lux is a below average teammate for Sylas. By locking into the same team as Sylas, she decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 47.4%. This shows that there is a negative synergy between Sylas and Lux that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Lux has a lower difficulty than Sylas. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Lux teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Sylas and Lux together, you will not be granting your team a lot of AD. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Lux ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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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 Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Sylas and Lux synergy build consist of Banshee's Veil, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Sylas included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Lux than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 47.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lux with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Sylas and Lux pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.4% win rate overall.
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