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.
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
The Sylas Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Orianna helps Sylas perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is paired with Orianna, he gets a moderate decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Orianna does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played together with Orianna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Orianna. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Orianna.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Orianna on the same team, he often takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Orianna does a poor job of protecting Sylas during teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Sylas that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Orianna is a very bad teammate for Sylas. By locking into the same side as Sylas, she decreases their win rate by -4.1% to 44.9%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Sylas and Orianna that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means you must be cautious when lining up Orianna allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working 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 two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Sylas and Orianna together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas in order to synergize with Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Sylas and Orianna synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Sylas included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Orianna than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 44.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Orianna with Sylas are given for every ranked division. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.