Leona with Sylas
How to Synergize Leona and Sylas
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Leona Sylas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Leona with Sylas
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Leona in LoL
The Leona Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Sylas helps Leona perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona tries to synergize with Sylas, she gets a little drop in her total damage output. This may signal that Sylas doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played alongside Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Sylas.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Sylas on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of covering Leona during teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no perfect ally for Leona that will always be her best teammate. Yet, Sylas is a below average ally for Leona. By locking into the same side as Leona, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 50.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Leona and Sylas that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Sylas has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players need to be very careful when lining up Sylas comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Leona players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Leona and Sylas together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Sylas teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Leona in order to pair well with Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Leona and Sylas synergy build consist of Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona included at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Sylas than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Sylas with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Leona and Sylas pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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