Sylas vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Sylas
based on 3,975 Sylas vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Sylas vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some important Sylas vs. Lee Sin matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lee Sin..
Sylas typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sylas and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Sylas or Lee Sin?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sylas usually wins when facing off against Lee Sin, with a 52.4% win rate. Thus, Sylas makes a good counter to Lee Sin.
While Sylas does have a higher winrate compared to Lee Sin, when facing one another, Sylas also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Sylas into Lee Sin.
Furthermore, Sylas also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Lee Sin matchups, Sylas is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Sylas is a good counter to Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sylas against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas in order to counter Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas often accumulates much more CS as Lee Sin. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Sylas versus Lee Sin build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Sylas incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Lee Sin than with many other common builds. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing against Lee Sin with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Lee Sin as Sylas, Sylas players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Sylas vs Lee Sin LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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