Sylas with Bard
How to Synergize Sylas and Bard
based on 3,585 Sylas with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sylas Bard Synergy Summary
Best Sylas vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Bard
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Sylas Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Sylas perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is an ally to Bard, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Bard supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played alongside Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Sylas plays with Bard on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Sylas in team fights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal companion for Sylas that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Bard is a top-tier companion for Sylas. By locking into the same side as Sylas, he raises their win rate by 4.4% to 53.4%. This signals that there is an important bond between Sylas and Bard that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Sylas. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Bard allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Sylas and Bard together, you may not be providing your side much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sylas in order to synergize with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Sylas and Bard synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Sylas incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 53.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.4% winrate overall.
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