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.
If you are struck by Fear Beyond Death, do your best to avoid falling below the execution threshold (25% of your Maximum Health) until the effect times out.
Urgot relies heavily on blasting opponents with his legs, which have their own cooldowns and only detonate when he attacks in the direction they are facing. Avoid getting hit by multiple.
Urgot can deal and absorb tremendous amounts of damage with Purge, but slows himself while firing.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some influential Sylas against Urgot counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Urgot’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Urgot..
Sylas often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Urgot. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually loses when facing off against Urgot, with a 45.7% win rate. Therefore, Sylas makes a bad counter for Urgot.
While Sylas does have a much lower win rate than Urgot, when they face off with one another, Sylas also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Sylas into Urgot.
Furthermore, Sylas also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Urgot. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Urgot matchups, Urgot is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Sylas is a garbage counter to Urgot. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sylas against Urgot.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to counter Urgot 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 significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas typically gets a similar amount of CS as Urgot. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Sylas versus Urgot build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Urgot than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 45.7% when playing against Urgot with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Urgot as Sylas, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Sylas vs Urgot matchups, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.7% win rate overall.
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