Zed with Sylas
How to Synergize Zed and Sylas
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Zed Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Zed with Sylas
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.
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.
Zed Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sylas helps Zed perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Sylas, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Sylas does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Sylas on the same side, 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 Sylas.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Sylas on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Sylas does a poor job of covering Zed in team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Sylas
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Is Zed better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no one best companion for Zed that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Sylas is a terrible teammate for Zed. By being on the same team as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -3.6% to 44.8%. This proves that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Zed and Sylas that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Sylas comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Zed players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Zed and Sylas together, you probably will not be providing your side much utility. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to work well with Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Zed and Sylas synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Sylas than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 44.8% helping carry Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Sylas with Zed are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.