Sylas with Zilean
How to Synergize Sylas and Zilean
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Sylas Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Sylas Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Sylas perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sylas plays on the same team as Zilean, he gets a noticable increase in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Zilean provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played with Zilean 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 Zilean.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Zilean on the same side, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Sylas during team fights.
Synergies between Sylas and Zilean
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Sylas that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Zilean is a pretty good teammate for Sylas. By being on the same side as Sylas, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 51.0%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Sylas and Zilean that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means Sylas players should be cautious when finding Zilean teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Sylas and Zilean together, you probably will not be providing your side enough AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Sylas in order to pair well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Sylas and Zilean synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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