Sylas with Zed
How to Synergize Sylas and Zed
based on 1,960 Sylas with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sylas Zed Synergy Summary
Best Sylas vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Zed
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Sylas Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zed helps Sylas perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sylas is paired with Zed, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Zed does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Additionally, when Sylas plays with Zed on the same side, he on average takes more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Sylas during teamfights.
Synergies between Sylas and Zed
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Sylas that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Zed is a very bad teammate for Sylas. By playing on the same team as Sylas, he lowers their win rate by -4.2% to 44.8%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Sylas and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means Sylas players need to be very careful when lining up Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Sylas and Zed together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of support. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Zed ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to synergize with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Sylas and Zed synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Zed than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sylas boasted an average win rate of 44.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Zed with Sylas are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.