Sylas with Maokai
How to Synergize Sylas and Maokai
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Sylas Maokai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Sylas Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Maokai helps Sylas perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sylas tries to synergize with Maokai, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Maokai provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played together with Maokai on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Maokai.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Maokai on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Sylas in teamfights.
Synergies between Sylas and Maokai
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top ally for Sylas that will always be his top ally. However, Maokai is a pretty good companion for Sylas. By playing on the same side as Sylas, he increases their win rate by 2.9% to 51.9%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Sylas and Maokai that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Maokai has a lower difficulty than Sylas. That means Sylas players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Maokai comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Sylas and Maokai together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas in order to work well with Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Sylas and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Maokai than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 51.9% helping carry Maokai with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Maokai with Sylas are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.