Sylas with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Sylas and Vel'Koz
based on 1,766 Sylas with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sylas Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Sylas vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Sylas Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Sylas perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas plays on the same team as Vel'Koz, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Vel'Koz doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played with Vel'Koz 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 with Vel'Koz.
Additionally, when Sylas plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Sylas in team fights.
Synergies between Sylas and Vel'Koz
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no perfect companion for Sylas that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Sylas. By locking into the same team as Sylas, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Sylas and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means you must be careful when enlisting Vel'Koz comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Sylas and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your team a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to work well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Sylas and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Sylas bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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