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Gragas with Sylas

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How to Synergize Gragas and Sylas

based on 1,448 Gragas with Sylas pairs
Win Rate
49.4 %
K/D/A
2.36
Pick Rate
2.2 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

We download the results of from millions of LoL games directly from Riot Games each and every week. Gragas has fought alongside Sylas in 1448 recently played, ranked matches. By amassing so much accurate data straight from the hosts of League of Legends, we are completely sure that we can produce robust, accurate builds to help Gragas play with Sylas. It is relatively rare for Gragas to play with Sylas on the same team. This has only taken place in approx. 2.2% of games with Gragas.

Gragas Sylas Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Gragas does a poor job of playing alongside Sylas. Usually, he wins an acceptable 49.4% of games the champions appear on the same team. If you want to play better as Gragas when fighting on the same team as Sylas by figuring out how to better synergize your gameplay with him, then check out the complete build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Gragas vs Sylas Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's RingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Amplifying TomeLost Chapter

Core Gragas Items

~22 Mins
Rabadon's DeathcapShadowflameStormsurge

Optional Items

Cosmic DriveLich BaneSeraph's EmbraceZhonya's Hourglass

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Gragas to level upq
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Second ability for Gragas to level upe
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Last skill for Gragas to max outw

Runes

SorceryPhase RushManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Gragas's passive ability p
Gragas's q ability q
Gragas's w ability w
Gragas's e ability e
Gragas's ultimate ability r
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W
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Sylas

Tips for Playing as Gragas with Sylas

Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.

Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.

The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.

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.

Gragas Sylas Synergy Stats

Gragas Image
Win Rate
49.4 %
VS
Win Rate
50.6 %
Sylas Image
5.5
< Kills >
5.9
5.5
< Deaths >
5.8
7.5
< Assists >
7.2
1.27
< Killing Sprees >
1.36
101
< Minions Killed >
109
0.64
< Dragons Killed >
0.59
0.36
< Inhibitors >
0.38
1,437
< Physical Damage >
1,474
17,107
< Magic Damage >
18,364
607
< True Damage >
641
19,152
< Damage Dealt >
20,480
29,012
< Damage Taken >
29,773
11,018
< Gold Earned >
11,274
1.5
< Towers >
1.47
0.14
< Baron Takedowns >
0.14
12,460
< Total Healing >
12,331
13,664
< Experience >
14,035
22
< Vision Score >
21
9
< Wards Placed >
8
417
< Time Dealing CC >
414

How to Play with Sylas as Gragas in LoL

The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sylas helps Gragas perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Gragas is paired with Sylas, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This could indicate that Sylas doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.

Additionally, when Gragas plays with Sylas on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Gragas during teamfights.

Synergies between Gragas and Sylas

Damage Types Compared

Gragas
Sylas
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Gragas
Sylas

Is Gragas better when played alongside Sylas?

There is no ideal companion for Gragas that will always be his top teammate. However, Sylas is a pretty good companion for Gragas. By playing on the same side as Gragas, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 49.4%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Gragas and Sylas that allows them to perform better together than without each other.

Sylas has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be careful when lining up Sylas comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.

Fighting cooperatively, Gragas players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.

In contrast, by pairing Gragas and Sylas together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.

Regardless of the skill of your Sylas ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.

Additional Information for Gragas Players

How We Calculated Our Gragas Sylas Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Gragas and Sylas, we analyzed 1,448 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Gragas with Sylas comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to synergize with Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.

The top items to include in your Gragas and Sylas synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Sylas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Sylas with these items in his kit.

To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Gragas players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.

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