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.
The Sylas Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Samira helps Sylas perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sylas plays on the same team as Samira, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Samira does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played alongside Samira on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Samira. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Samira.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Samira on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Samira does a decent job of covering Sylas during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Sylas that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Samira is a very typical teammate for Sylas. By locking into the same side as Sylas, she lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 48.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Sylas and Samira that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Samira has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means Sylas players must be very careful when finding Samira teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Sylas players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Sylas and Samira together, you will not be providing your team a lot of support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Samira ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Sylas to synergize with Samira during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Sylas and Samira synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Samira than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 48.0% when playing alongside Samira with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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