Sylas with Alistar
How to Synergize Sylas and Alistar
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Sylas Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Sylas Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sylas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Sylas perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sylas tries to synergize with Alistar, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Alistar provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played together with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Alistar.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Alistar on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Alistar does a decent job of covering Sylas during team fights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no ideal synergy for Sylas that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Alistar is a good teammate for Sylas. By being on the same side as Sylas, he improves their win rate by 1.7% to 50.7%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Sylas and Alistar that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means Sylas players should be careful when lining up Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Sylas players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Sylas and Alistar together, you may not be providing your team much AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Alistar 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Sylas to pair well with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Sylas and Alistar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Sylas used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Alistar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Sylas players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Alistar with Sylas are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.