Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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 Alistar 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, Alistar 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 decrease shows that Sylas helps Alistar perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Sylas, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Sylas does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside 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 alongside Sylas.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Sylas on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Alistar in team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Alistar that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Sylas is a pretty good companion for Alistar. By being on the same team as Alistar, he increases their win rate by 1.3% to 50.7%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good synergy between Alistar and Sylas that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Sylas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Alistar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Alistar and Sylas together, you may not be granting your team enough AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Sylas ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to synergize 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Alistar and Sylas synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Sylas than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 50.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Alistar and Sylas pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
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