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.
The Zeri Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zeri sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Sylas helps Zeri perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zeri plays on the same team as Sylas, they observes a barely noticable drop in their complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Sylas does not provide cover for them to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zeri is played together with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Sylas. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Moreover, when Zeri plays with Sylas on the same team, they on average receives a little less damage than when they plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of covering Zeri in teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Zeri that will always be their best ally. Yet, overall, Sylas is a below average companion for Zeri. By being on the same team as Zeri, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 44.7%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Zeri and Sylas that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Zeri. That means Zeri players don't need to be very careful when finding Sylas comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Zeri and Sylas together, you probably will not be providing your side much support. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Sylas teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Zeri in order to pair well with Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Zeri and Sylas synergy build include Bloodthirster, Experimental Hexplate, and Runaan's Hurricane. When Zeri combined at least these three items in their build, they did much better as an ally of Sylas than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zeri had an average win rate of 44.7% when playing alongside Sylas with these items in their kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Sylas with Zeri are given for every ranked division. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.