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How to Win Garen vs Sylas Counter MatchupGaren is in the b tier of champions

Garen vs Sylas

How to Beat Sylas as Garen in LoLGaren is in the a tier of champions
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How to Beat Sylas as Garen

based on 4,422 Garen vs Sylas matchups
Win Rate
49.7 %
K/D/A
2
Pick Rate
3.3 %

How We Analyze LoL Champion Counters

We at MOBA Champion summarize millions of recently ranked League games every week. In our database, Garen faced off against Sylas in 4422 rounds. Including so many games with Garen versus Sylas provides us a lot of faith in our capability to produce informative data and a recommended build to shatter your foe. This particular counter matchup is fairly rare. Garen encounters Sylas in only 3.3% of his games.

Garen vs Sylas Matchup Summary

Garen has done a average job of countering Sylas. Typically, he wins a acceptable 49.7% of the time the champs face off with each other in. In Garen vs Sylas games, Garen’s team is 0.1% less expected to earn first blood, implying that he most likely won't be able to get first blood versus Sylas.

Best Garen vs Sylas Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's BladeHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordBerserker's Greaves

Core Garen Items

~22 Mins
Trinity ForceDead Man's PlateSundered Sky

Optional Items

Chempunk ChainswordPhantom DancerTitanic HydraSterak's Gage

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot summoner spell F

Skill Order

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

Runes

SorceryPhase RushNimbus CloakCelerityGathering Storm
ResolveSecond WindOvergrowth
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceMagic Resist
Garen's passive ability p
Garen's q ability q
Garen's w ability w
Garen's e ability e
Garen's ultimate ability r
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Q
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E
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W
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E
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E
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R
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Garen

Tips for Playing as Garen against Sylas

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.

Advice to Win Against Sylas

Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.

Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!

Garen vs Sylas Counter Stats

Garen Image
Win Rate
49.7 %
VS
Win Rate
50.3 %
Sylas Image
6.2
< Kills >
8.2
5.2
< Deaths >
7.1
4.2
< Assists >
6.2
1.4
< Killing Sprees >
1.85
174
< Minions Killed >
122
0.1
< Dragons Killed >
0.2
0.59
< Inhibitors >
0.38
14,676
< Physical Damage >
536
210
< Magic Damage >
20,561
4,689
< True Damage >
1,660
19,576
< Damage Dealt >
22,758
31,001
< Damage Taken >
30,276
12,033
< Gold Earned >
11,425
2.77
< Towers >
1.49
0.02
< Baron Takedowns >
0.05
3,129
< Total Healing >
7,648
15,041
< Experience >
13,547
17
< Vision Score >
19
8
< Wards Placed >
9
137
< Time Dealing CC >
274

How to Counter Sylas with Garen in LoL

The stats shown here clarify several strategic Garen versus Sylas matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sylas’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sylas..

Garen often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Sylas. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.

Differences between Garen and Sylas

Damage Types Compared

Garen
Sylas
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Compared

Garen
Sylas

Who is Better, Garen or Sylas?

Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when facing off against Sylas, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes an ok counter to Sylas.

While Garen does have a lower win rate compared to Sylas, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Sylas.

Additionally, Garen also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sylas. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.

While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Sylas matchups, Sylas is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.

Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Sylas. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Sylas.

Other Champion Matchups Against Garen

Garen Loses Against

LilliaLillia43% winrateMordekaiserMordekaiser43.5% winrateKayleKayle44.1% winrateTrundleTrundle44.7% winrate

Garen Wins Against

YuumiYuumi56.1% winrateNidaleeNidalee54.9% winrateK'SanteK'Sante53.3% winrateEzrealEzreal53.2% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

BrandBrand+ 52.5% 8964 GamesNilahNilah+ 52.5% 1991 GamesKledKled+ 53.8% 262 GamesLilliaLillia+ 54.9% 7886 Games

Additional Information for Garen Players

How We Calculated Our Garen vs Sylas Build and Stats

For this guide on countering Sylas as Garen, we analyzed 4,422 matchups from recent LoL games. We use rigorous data cleaning and processing methods to ensure that our counter stats are of the highest quality. You can rest assured that the recommended build to counter Sylas as Garen comes from real 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 the most relevant stats and items to your rank.

Other Useful Resources

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Further Insights to Win this Matchup

To truly master Garen to counter Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.

Garen most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Sylas. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.

The ideal items to focus on in your Garen versus Sylas build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Garen combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Sylas than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Garen had an average winrate of 49.7% when countering Sylas with these items in his kit.

To have the best chance of vanquishing Sylas as Garen, Garen players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Garen vs Sylas counters, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.

By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Sylas as Garen are presented for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.