Garen with Sylas
How to Synergize Garen and Sylas
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Garen Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Garen with Sylas
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sylas helps Garen perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Sylas, he sees a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Sylas doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Sylas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Sylas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Sylas on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Sylas does a decent job of covering Garen in team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no one best companion for Garen that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Sylas is a very typical teammate for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he increases their win rate by 0.3% to 49.0%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Garen and Sylas that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Sylas comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Garen and Sylas together, you may not be providing your other teammates much utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Sylas ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen to pair well with Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Garen and Sylas synergy build consist of Dead Man's Plate, Force of Nature, and Stridebreaker. When Garen combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Sylas than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 49.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Garen players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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