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.
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
The Sylas Azir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Azir, 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 Azir. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Azir helps Sylas perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is paired with Azir, he observes a moderate decrease in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Azir doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played together with Azir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Azir.
Additionally, when Sylas plays with Azir on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Azir does a poor job of covering Sylas during team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Sylas that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Azir is a very typical companion for Sylas. By locking into the same team as Sylas, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 48.6%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Sylas and Azir that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Azir has a much greater difficulty compared to Sylas. That means you should be careful when lining up Azir comrades to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Sylas players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Sylas and Azir together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of engage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Azir ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to work well with Azir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Sylas and Azir synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Azir than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when playing alongside Azir with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Sylas players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Sylas and Azir pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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