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.
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
The Sylas Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, 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 Ryze. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ryze helps Sylas perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas plays on the same team as Ryze, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This change could signal that Ryze does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played alongside Ryze on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ryze. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ryze.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Ryze on the same team, he often takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Ryze does a poor job of covering Sylas in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Sylas that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Ryze is a very typical ally for Sylas. By playing on the same side as Sylas, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 48.5%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Sylas and Ryze that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Ryze comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Sylas players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Sylas and Ryze together, you may not be granting your team a lot of attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Ryze ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Sylas in order to work well with Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Sylas and Ryze synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Sylas combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Ryze than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Ryze with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Sylas players 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 picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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