Sylas with Gnar
How to Synergize Sylas and Gnar
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Sylas Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Sylas with 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 Understand How Gnar Will Play
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.
Sylas Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gnar helps Sylas perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sylas is paired with Gnar, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Gnar supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played alongside Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Additionally, when Sylas plays with Gnar on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Gnar does a poor job of covering Sylas during team fights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Sylas that will always be his best ally. Yet, Gnar is a relatively poor ally for Sylas. By locking into the same side as Sylas, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 47.5%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Sylas and Gnar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means you must be careful when lining up Gnar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Sylas and Gnar together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of utility. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Gnar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to work well with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Sylas and Gnar synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Gnar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
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