Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack 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 Kalista Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kalista sees a very large drop in her 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 Kalista perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista tries to synergize with Sylas, she sees a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Sylas supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played together with Sylas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Sylas. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Sylas.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Sylas on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of covering Kalista during team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Kalista that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. Yet, Sylas is a relatively poor ally for Kalista. By being on the same side as Kalista, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 45.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Kalista and Sylas that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be cautious when lining up Sylas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Kalista and Sylas together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Kalista in order to work well with Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Kalista and Sylas synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kalista used at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Sylas than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 45.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Sylas with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Kalista players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Sylas with Kalista are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.