Amumu with Sylas
How to Synergize Amumu and Sylas
based on 2,367 Amumu with Sylas pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Amumu Sylas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Sylas
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu 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, Amumu sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sylas helps Amumu perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu is paired with Sylas, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Sylas does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played together with Sylas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Sylas on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Amumu in team fights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no ideal ally for Amumu that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Sylas is a very typical teammate for Amumu. By playing on the same side as Amumu, he raises their win rate by 0.7% to 49.7%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Amumu and Sylas that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Sylas has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Sylas teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Amumu and Sylas together, you will not be granting your team a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Amumu in order to work well with Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Amumu and Sylas synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Sylas than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 49.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Amumu players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Amumu and Sylas pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.7% win rate overall.
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