If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
The stats shown on this page highlight several critical Draven against Sylas matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Draven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sylas’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Draven may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sylas..
Draven normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Sylas. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Draven usually wins when facing off against Sylas, with a 51.4% win rate. Therefore, Draven makes a good counter for Sylas.
While Draven does have a higher win rate compared to Sylas, when facing one another, Draven also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Draven into Sylasas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Draven also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sylas. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Draven vs Sylas matchups, Draven is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Draven is a decent counter to Sylas. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Draven against Sylas.
If you would like to truly master Draven in order to counter Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Draven often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Sylas. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Draven versus Sylas build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Draven bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Sylas than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Draven boasted an average winrate of 51.4% battling Sylas with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Sylas as Draven, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Legend: Bloodline runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Draven vs Sylas counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.4% win rate overall.
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