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.
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
The Sylas Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Annie helps Sylas perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is an ally to Annie, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Annie does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played together with Annie on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Annie.
Additionally, when Sylas plays with Annie on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Annie does a poor job of protecting Sylas in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Sylas that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Annie is a very bad teammate for Sylas. By playing on the same side as Sylas, she lowers their win rate by -3.2% to 45.8%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Sylas and Annie that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Annie has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means Sylas players should be very careful when enlisting Annie comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Sylas and Annie together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Annie ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Sylas to work well with Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Sylas and Annie synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Sylas included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Annie than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 45.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Sylas and Annie pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Annie with Sylas are displayed for all ranked divisions. To filter the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.