Akshan with Sylas
How to Synergize Akshan and Sylas
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Akshan Sylas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Sylas
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Understand How Sylas Will Play
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.
Akshan Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sylas helps Akshan perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akshan is an ally to Sylas, they observes a small decrease in their complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Sylas does not support by providing protection for them to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played together with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays without Sylas. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Sylas.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Sylas on the same team, they on average receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Akshan in team fights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no perfect companion for Akshan that will 100% of the time be their ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Sylas is a very typical companion for Akshan. By being on the same team as Akshan, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 48.0%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Akshan and Sylas that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Sylas has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Sylas comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Akshan and Sylas together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Sylas ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to work well with Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Akshan and Sylas synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan included at least these three finished items in their build, they performed much better when fighting alongside Sylas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 48.0% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Sylas with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Akshan players should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Shield Bash, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.0% win rate overall.
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