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Sylas Build

Top Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 12,082 gamesUpdated

49.1%win rate0.5%pick18.0%ban

Who counters Sylas

How to build Sylas

Ionian Boots of Lucidity→Hextech Rocketbelt→Riftmaker→Zhonya's Hourglass

Ionian Boots of Lucidity → Hextech Rocketbelt → Riftmaker → Zhonya's Hourglass

55.7% win rate 24% of games 1,496 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorPresence of MindLegend: HasteLast StandResolveSecond WindUnflinching48% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite71%
Skills
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Chain Lash
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Kingslayer
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Abscond / Abduct
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Hijack
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Sylas build →
49.1%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.9% over 28,892 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.1% over 12,082 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.8%at Emerald+
0.5%pick rate
18.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
51.3%under 22 min
47.7%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 35–40m
MASTER+
Sylas champion portraitT SylasvsGangplank champion portraitT Gangplank
3 / 10 / 6

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Hextech Rocketbelt→Riftmaker→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

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Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Sylas champion portraitT SylasvsZilean champion portraitT Zilean
6 / 7 / 4

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Rod of Ages→Hextech Rocketbelt

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Win 40–45m
MASTER+
Sylas champion portraitT SylasvsAkali champion portraitT Akali
12 / 8 / 14

Build

Hextech Rocketbelt→Riftmaker→Zhonya's Hourglass→Bloodletter's Curse

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

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Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 49.5% win rate · 48% of games · 5,301 games
PrecisionConquerorPresence of MindLegend: HasteLast Stand
ResolveSecond WindUnflinching
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 47.5% win rate · 12% of games · 1,355 games
DominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosRelentless Hunter
SorceryScorchTranscendence
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite71%49.0%8,792 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport25%50.0%3,135 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity40%Sorcerer's Shoes32%Mercury's Treads15%
Ionian Boots of Lucidity most often · 50.6% win rate

Sylas build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Hextech Rocketbelt1st
  2. Zhonya's Hourglass2nd
  3. Riftmaker3rd
11% of games that reach a third item take this path55.7% win rate697 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Sylas →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 12,154 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
40% · 50.7% win rate
Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
32% · 50.4% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
15% · 49.3% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
8% · 49.8% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 29.9% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
2% · 53.0% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Hextech Rocketbelt›Riftmaker+Ionian Boots of Lucidity5% of games · 44.1% win rate · 630 games
  2. Hextech Rocketbelt›Riftmaker+Sorcerer's Shoes3% of games · 50.0% win rate · 382 games
  3. Hextech Rocketbelt+Ionian Boots of Lucidity3% of games · 39.4% win rate · 363 games
  4. Hextech Rocketbelt+Sorcerer's Shoes3% of games · 42.7% win rate · 347 games
  5. Hextech Rocketbelt›Zhonya's Hourglass›Riftmaker+Ionian Boots of Lucidity2% of games · 58.3% win rate · 259 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Sylas against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Sylas's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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