Yasuo vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Yasuo
based on 9,126 Yasuo vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Sylas
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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!
Yasuo vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Yasuo in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some significant Yasuo vs. Sylas counter statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sylas’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Sylas..
Yasuo usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Sylas. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yasuo and Sylas
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Sylas?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yasuo usually wins when taking on Sylas, with a 53.6% win rate. Therefore, Yasuo makes a great counter to Sylas.
While Yasuo does have a higher win rate compared to Sylas, when facing one another, Yasuo also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Yasuo into Sylasas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yasuo has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sylas. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Sylas matchups, Yasuo is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Yasuo is a great counter to Sylas. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Yasuo against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo to counter Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo often gets a similar amount of CS as Sylas. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Yasuo versus Sylas build consist of Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Sylas than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Yasuo had an average winrate of 53.6% battling Sylas with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Sylas as Yasuo, Yasuo players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Yasuo vs Sylas counters, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Sylas as Yasuo are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.