Sylas vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Sylas
based on 4,422 Sylas vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against 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 Win Against Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Sylas vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some strategic Sylas versus Garen counter stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Garen..
Sylas normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Garen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Garen
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Who is Better, Sylas or Garen?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Garen, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Sylas makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Sylas does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Sylas also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sylas into Garen.
Moreover, Sylas also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Garen matchups, Sylas is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Sylas is a decent counter to Garen. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sylas against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Sylas to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Sylas versus Garen build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Sylas bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Garen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when countering Garen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Garen as Sylas, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Sylas vs Garen counters, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
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