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.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stat comparisons provided here feature several vital Sylas vs. Rumble matchup stats that can help you understand the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rumble..
Sylas often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Rumble. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually wins when trying to fight Rumble, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Sylas makes a good counter to Rumble.
While Sylas does have a higher winrate than Rumble, when facing one another, Sylas also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sylas into Rumble.
Moreover, Sylas also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Rumble matchups, Sylas is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Sylas is a decent counter to Rumble. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Sylas against Rumble.
To learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to counter Rumble during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Rumble. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sylas versus Rumble build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Rumble than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average win rate of 51.8% battling Rumble with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Rumble as Sylas, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Sylas vs Rumble counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
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