Vel'Koz with Sylas
How to Synergize Vel'Koz and Sylas
based on 1,766 Vel'Koz with Sylas pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vel'Koz Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vel'Koz and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz with Sylas
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
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.
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.
Advice to Understand How Sylas Will Play
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.
Vel'Koz Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Vel'Koz in LoL
The Vel'Koz Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Vel'Koz sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sylas helps Vel'Koz perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vel'Koz plays on the same team as Sylas, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Sylas doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Vel'Koz is played together with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Moreover, when Vel'Koz plays with Sylas on the same team, he often takes less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of covering Vel'Koz in teamfights.
Synergies between Vel'Koz and Sylas
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Is Vel'Koz better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Vel'Koz that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, Sylas is a below average companion for Vel'Koz. By playing on the same team as Vel'Koz, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 49.0%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Vel'Koz and Sylas that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Sylas has a much lower diffuclty than Vel'Koz. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Sylas allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Vel'Koz players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Vel'Koz and Sylas together, you probably will not be providing your side much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to pair well with Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Vel'Koz and Sylas synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vel'Koz included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Sylas than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz had an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Vel'Koz and Sylas pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Sylas with Vel'Koz are presented for every ranked division. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.