Katarina vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Katarina
based on 4,369 Katarina vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Sylas
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Katarina vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several important Katarina versus Sylas matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sylas’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Sylas..
Katarina often has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Sylas. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Sylas
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Who is Better, Katarina or Sylas?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when taking on Sylas, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes an ok counter for Sylas.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate than Sylas, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Sylasas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sylas. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Sylas matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Katarina is a decent counter for Sylas. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to counter Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Sylas. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Katarina versus Sylas build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Sylas than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when playing against Sylas with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Sylas as Katarina, Katarina players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Katarina vs Sylas counters, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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