Zilean with Sylas
How to Synergize Zilean and Sylas
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Zilean Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Sylas
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.
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.
Zilean Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean 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, Zilean sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sylas helps Zilean perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean tries to synergize with Sylas, he gets a small decrease in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Sylas doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside Sylas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Sylas on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Zilean during teamfights.
Synergies between Zilean and Sylas
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no ideal ally for Zilean that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Sylas is a very typical companion for Zilean. By locking into the same team as Zilean, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 51.0%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Zilean and Sylas that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players don't need to be very careful when finding Sylas comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Zilean and Sylas together, you will not be granting your other teammates much AD. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Zilean in order to work well with Sylas 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 above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Zilean and Sylas synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Sylas than with many other common builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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