Sylas with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Sylas and Vel'Koz
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Sylas Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Sylas Vel'Koz Synergy Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Vel'Koz
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Advice to Understand How Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
Sylas Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vel'Koz helps Sylas perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sylas tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This could indicate that Vel'Koz provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played together with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Sylas during team fights.
Synergies between Sylas and Vel'Koz
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Sylas that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Vel'Koz is a great companion for Sylas. By being on the same team as Sylas, he raises their win rate by 4.7% to 53.3%. This demonstrates that there is a very strong bond between Sylas and Vel'Koz that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Vel'Koz teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, Sylas players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Sylas and Vel'Koz together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Vel'Koz teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Sylas and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Everfrost, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Cosmic Drive. When Sylas included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 53.3% helping carry Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Sylas players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.3% win rate overall.
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