Gnar with Sylas
How to Synergize Gnar and Sylas
based on 1,261 Gnar with Sylas pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Sylas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Sylas
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar 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, Gnar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sylas helps Gnar perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Sylas, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Sylas does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar 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 with Sylas.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Sylas on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of covering Gnar in teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Sylas is a very typical ally for Gnar. By being on the same side as Gnar, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 47.5%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Gnar and Sylas that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Sylas has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be cautious when lining up Sylas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Gnar and Sylas together, you probably will not be providing your team enough support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Gnar in order to pair well with Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Gnar and Sylas synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Sylas than with many other common builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 47.5% helping carry Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Gnar players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Gnar and Sylas pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Sylas with Gnar are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.