Kassadin vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Kassadin
based on 1,749 Kassadin vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Sylas
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Advice to Win Against Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Kassadin vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Kassadin against Sylas counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sylas’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Sylas..
Kassadin normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Sylas. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kassadin and Sylas
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Sylas?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kassadin usually fairs equally well when playing against Sylas, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Kassadin makes an ok counter for Sylas.
While Kassadin does have a higher win rate than Sylas, when on opposite teams, Kassadin also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kassadin into Sylasas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kassadin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sylas. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Sylas matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Kassadin is a decent counter to Sylas. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kassadin against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin to counter Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Sylas. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Kassadin versus Sylas build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Sylas than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average winrate of 50.9% when playing against Sylas with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Sylas as Kassadin, Kassadin players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Kassadin vs Sylas fights, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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