Sylas with Garen
How to Synergize Sylas and Garen
based on 4,041 Sylas with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sylas Garen Synergy Summary
Best Sylas vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Garen
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Garen
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.
Advice to Understand How Garen Will Play
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.
Sylas Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Sylas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Garen helps Sylas perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sylas plays on the same team as Garen, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Garen supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played alongside Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Garen on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Garen does a poor job of protecting Sylas during team fights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Sylas that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Garen is a very typical teammate for Sylas. By being on the same team as Sylas, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.0%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Sylas and Garen that results in them performing at the same level together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Sylas. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Garen allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Sylas and Garen together, you will not be giving your other allies very much utility. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Sylas in order to work well with Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Sylas and Garen synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Garen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 49.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Sylas players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Sylas and Garen pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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