Aphelios with Sylas
How to Synergize Aphelios and Sylas
based on 3,019 Aphelios with Sylas pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Sylas Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Aphelios Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Sylas
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios 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 Aphelios perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Sylas, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Sylas does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Sylas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Sylas.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Sylas on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Sylas
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Aphelios better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Aphelios that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Sylas is a relatively poor teammate for Aphelios. By playing on the same team as Aphelios, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 47.5%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Aphelios and Sylas that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Sylas has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be cautious when arranging Sylas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Aphelios and Sylas together, you will not be providing your other allies very much utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Sylas ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Aphelios
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Aphelios Players
How We Calculated Our Aphelios Sylas Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios in order to synergize with Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Aphelios and Sylas synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Aphelios included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Sylas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 47.5% helping carry Sylas with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Aphelios and Sylas pairings, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Sylas with Aphelios are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.