Sylas with Mordekaiser
How to Synergize Sylas and Mordekaiser
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Sylas Mordekaiser Synergy Summary
Best Sylas vs Mordekaiser Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Mordekaiser
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Mordekaiser
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 Mordekaiser Will Play
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
Sylas Mordekaiser Synergy Stats
How to Play with Mordekaiser as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Mordekaiser synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Mordekaiser, 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 Mordekaiser. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Mordekaiser helps Sylas perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is paired with Mordekaiser, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Mordekaiser doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played together with Mordekaiser on the same team, 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 Mordekaiser.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Mordekaiser on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Mordekaiser does a poor job of covering Sylas during teamfights.
Synergies between Sylas and Mordekaiser
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Mordekaiser?
There is no one best synergy for Sylas that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Mordekaiser is a pretty good teammate for Sylas. By locking into the same side as Sylas, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 50.5%. This signals that there is pretty good synergy between Sylas and Mordekaiser that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Mordekaiser has a lower difficulty than Sylas. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Mordekaiser allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, Sylas players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Sylas and Mordekaiser together, you probably will not be providing your team a great deal of utility. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Mordekaiser ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Sylas to work well with Mordekaiser during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Sylas and Mordekaiser synergy build include Void Staff, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Mordekaiser than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 50.5% helping carry Mordekaiser with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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