For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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 Jayce 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, Jayce 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 worsening shows that Sylas helps Jayce perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jayce is an ally to Sylas, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Sylas does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Jayce is played together with Sylas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Moreover, when Jayce plays with Sylas on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Sylas does a decent job of covering Jayce in teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Jayce that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Sylas is a very bad companion for Jayce. By playing on the same team as Jayce, he lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 44.7%. This proves that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Jayce and Sylas that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Jayce. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Sylas comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Jayce and Sylas together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Sylas teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Jayce in order to work well with Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Jayce and Sylas synergy build include Muramana, Eclipse, and Serylda's Grudge. When Jayce combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Sylas than with most other common builds. In fact, Jayce had an average win rate of 44.7% helping carry Sylas with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Jayce players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Jayce and Sylas pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.7% winrate overall.
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