Sylas vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Sylas
based on 1,678 Sylas vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Anivia
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 Win Against Anivia
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
Sylas vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Sylas in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several important Sylas vs. Anivia counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Anivia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Anivia..
Sylas often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Anivia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Anivia
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Who is Better, Sylas or Anivia?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually loses when trying to fight Anivia, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Sylas makes a poor counter to Anivia.
While Sylas does have a lower win rate than Anivia, when on opposite teams, Sylas also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Sylas into Anivia.
Additionally, Sylas also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Sylas is a somewhat poor counter to Anivia. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Sylas against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to counter Anivia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Anivia. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Sylas versus Anivia build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Anivia than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 48.9% battling Anivia with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Anivia as Sylas, Sylas players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Sylas vs Anivia clashes, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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