Katarina with Sylas
How to Synergize Katarina and Sylas
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Katarina Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Sylas
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina 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 fall shows that Sylas helps Katarina perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is an ally to Sylas, she observes a little drop in her full damage dealt. This could signal that Sylas does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played 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 synergisticly with Sylas.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Sylas on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of covering Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Sylas
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no top companion for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. However, Sylas is a below average companion for Katarina. By locking into the same team as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 46.4%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Katarina and Sylas that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Sylas has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Sylas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Katarina players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Katarina and Sylas together, you may not be granting your other teammates much crowd control. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Sylas ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Katarina in order to synergize with Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Katarina and Sylas synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Sylas than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 46.4% when playing alongside Sylas with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Katarina players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Katarina and Sylas pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
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