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 Rell 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, Rell sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sylas helps Rell perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rell tries to synergize with Sylas, she gets a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Sylas doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Rell is played alongside Sylas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Sylas. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Sylas.
Moreover, when Rell plays with Sylas on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Sylas does a decent job of covering Rell in teamfights.
There is no perfect ally for Rell that will always be her top ally. However, Sylas is a relatively poor ally for Rell. By playing on the same side as Rell, he drops their win rate by -2.5% to 46.8%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Rell and Sylas that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Sylas has a much greater difficulty compared to Rell. That means Rell players should be careful when arranging Sylas allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, Rell players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by aligning Rell and Sylas together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of AD. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Rell to pair well with Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Rell and Sylas synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Sylas than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rell had an average winrate of 46.8% helping carry Sylas with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.8% winrate overall.
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