Sylas with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Sylas and Xin Zhao
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Sylas Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Sylas Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xin Zhao helps Sylas perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is paired with Xin Zhao, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Xin Zhao doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he on average receives less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Sylas during team fights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Sylas that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a decent teammate for Sylas. By being on the same side as Sylas, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 50.3%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Sylas and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Sylas. That means Sylas players don't need to be cautious when lining up Xin Zhao comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Sylas players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Sylas and Xin Zhao together, you may not be providing your team a lot of utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Sylas in order to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Sylas and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Xin Zhao than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 50.3% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Sylas players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Sylas and Xin Zhao pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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