Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
The Gragas Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sylas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Sylas helps Gragas perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is paired with Sylas, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This could indicate that Sylas doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Sylas on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Gragas during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Gragas that will always be his top teammate. However, Sylas is a pretty good companion for Gragas. By playing on the same side as Gragas, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 49.4%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Gragas and Sylas that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Sylas has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be careful when lining up Sylas comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Gragas players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Gragas and Sylas together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Sylas ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to synergize with Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Gragas and Sylas synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Sylas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Sylas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Gragas players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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