Xerath with Sylas
How to Synergize Xerath and Sylas
based on 3,028 Xerath with Sylas pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Xerath Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Xerath vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Sylas
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Advice to Understand How Sylas Will Play
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.
Xerath Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Xerath sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sylas helps Xerath perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xerath is paired with Sylas, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Sylas doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played alongside Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Moreover, when Xerath plays with Sylas on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Sylas does a decent job of covering Xerath in team fights.
Synergies between Xerath and Sylas
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Xerath that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Sylas is a relatively poor teammate for Xerath. By playing on the same side as Xerath, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 48.9%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Xerath and Sylas that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Sylas has a much lower diffuclty than Xerath. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Sylas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Xerath players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Xerath and Sylas together, you will not be granting your other allies very much sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Xerath in order to work well with Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Xerath and Sylas synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Xerath used at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Sylas than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Xerath boasted an average winrate of 48.9% helping carry Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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