Sylas with Thresh
How to Synergize Sylas and Thresh
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Sylas Thresh Synergy Summary
Best Sylas vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Sylas Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Thresh helps Sylas perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas is an ally to Thresh, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Thresh does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played together with Thresh on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Thresh. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Thresh.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Thresh on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Thresh does a decent job of protecting Sylas in team fights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Sylas that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Thresh is a terrible companion for Sylas. By locking into the same side as Sylas, he lowers their win rate by -3.4% to 45.6%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Sylas and Thresh that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Thresh has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means you should be very careful when finding Thresh comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Sylas and Thresh together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Thresh teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Sylas in order to work well with Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Sylas and Thresh synergy build consist of Cryptbloom, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Thresh than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 45.6% helping carry Thresh with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Sylas players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.6% win rate overall.
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