Sylas vs Gnar
How to Beat Gnar as Sylas
based on 1,404 Sylas vs Gnar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Gnar Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gnar as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Gnar
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 Win Against Gnar
Gnar's ultimate stuns if he hits you into a wall. Be careful when fighting him near one.
Gnar's animations and resource bar change as he gets closer to transforming.
Gnar can't gain Rage for 15 seconds after he turns from big to little. Use this chance to engage on his team.
Sylas vs Gnar Counter Stats
How to Counter Gnar with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several strategic Sylas against Gnar counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gnar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Gnar..
Sylas often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Gnar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Gnar
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Who is Better, Sylas or Gnar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sylas usually wins when facing off against Gnar, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Sylas makes a good counter to Gnar.
While Sylas does have a higher win rate than Gnar, when they face off with one another, Sylas also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Sylas into Gnar.
Additionally, Sylas also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gnar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Gnar matchups, Sylas is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Sylas is a decent counter for Gnar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Sylas against Gnar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas in order to counter Gnar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Gnar. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Sylas versus Gnar build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Sylas included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Gnar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 51.3% when countering Gnar with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Gnar as Sylas, Sylas players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Sylas vs Gnar fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
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