Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
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.
The Aatrox Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sylas helps Aatrox perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aatrox tries to synergize with Sylas, he observes a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Sylas does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played together with Sylas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sylas.
Moreover, when Aatrox plays with Sylas on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Aatrox during team fights.
There is no one best companion for Aatrox that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Sylas is a not very good teammate for Aatrox. By playing on the same team as Aatrox, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 49.2%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Aatrox and Sylas that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Sylas has a greater difficulty than Aatrox. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Sylas allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, Aatrox players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Aatrox and Sylas together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Sylas teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Aatrox in order to synergize with Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Aatrox and Sylas synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Aatrox included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Sylas than with most other common builds. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Aatrox players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Aatrox and Sylas pairings, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Sylas with Aatrox are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.