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Sylas Quotes

334 voice lines from League of Legends, 195 of them in Sylas's own voice. One skin comes with a voice of its own: Dark Star.

Pick

"No more cages!"

Ban

"You can't cage me for long."

Sylas's interactions conversation pages with both sides

Champion Select

Pick

  • "No more cages!"

Ban

  • "You can't cage me for long."

Movement

First Move

  • "So... who wants to kill the king?"
  • "The great mage rebellion starts now!"
  • "See the remnants of my bondage, and know you can be free!"
  • "Breaking out was nothing! Watch me break a kingdom."
  • "Look at all those good little cogs, unaware of the wheel they turn."
  • "Those who wait to be freed do not deserve freedom. Onwards, brothers and sisters!"
  • "This place has potential! Let's tear it all down!"

Moving

  • "A shepherd with no flock is just an idiot with a stick."
  • "How beautiful a world is without walls!"
  • "Only sheep need a leader."
  • "Conflict brings truth... eventually."
  • "Swine and sheep. That's all they are."
  • "Chains build revolutions, one link at a time."
  • "It took prison for me to find liberation."
  • "I will be the monster they think I am."
  • "Time to crack the upper crust."
  • "Tradition is a crutch for the mindless."
  • "Whatever they bring, I'll match it."
  • "Just sowing the seeds of rebellion."
  • "I used to be locked up, but I didn't care for it."
  • "What can they do to me that they have not done?"
  • "From the rubble, true order will be born!"
  • "I will show them a world without lords or peasants!"
  • "I am no traitor! I am the true Demacia!"
  • "I'm a man without a country. Perhaps I'll take this one."
  • "Once you've seen the truth, you can't keep living the lie."
  • "It will be brother against brother, father against son!"
  • "A Mageseeker tried to test me once..."
  • "Question authority... then slit its throat!"
  • "The mage shall inherit the earth."
  • "I was born a mage; Demacia made me a criminal."
  • "The bluer the blood, the sweeter it spills."
  • "We will rip the power from their cold, dead fists!"
  • "Every Demacian a king!"
  • "A man who seeks control is a man who needs to die!"
  • "Good, evil... what does any of that even mean?"
  • "Aah, how I missed the free air."
  • "No more slums, no more dungeons!"
  • "They locked up a boy, but let loose a killer."
  • "Time for the kings to bow!"
  • "After fifteen years in the dark, I was illuminated."
  • "No prison can hold me."

Moving › Moving Alongside Multiple Allies

  • "Time to take what's ours!"
  • "Behold, the true order!"
  • "Do not allow them peace!"
  • "Rise up, brothers and sisters!"
  • "They can't hang us all!"
  • "Mages, unite!"
  • "Embrace the chaos!"

Long Move

  • "No more kings! No more queens! No more Mageseekers! It all ends now!"
  • "They work their fingers to the bone serving a king they'll never meet. I must show them there is more to life!"
  • "Their shackles are now my weapons! Ha, how's that for irony?"

First Encounter

First Encounter with Ezreal

  • "At last, I've come for you, Jarro Lightfeather!"

First Encounter with Fiora

  • "Well, well, Fiora! Aren't you the very portrait of privilege!"
  • "How much will the Laurent name be worth when your house is burned to the ground?"

First Encounter with Galio

  • "Oh, look! A walking monument to ignorance."
  • "Idols are made to be desecrated, Galio."
  • "The wonderous Galio. Yes... I've read all about you."

First Encounter with Garen

  • "Ah, Garen! First to die for the ruling class."
  • "Hello, Crownguard! Remember me?"
  • "Villainy never knows itself... eh, Garen?"

First Encounter with Jarvan IV

  • "I'll give you a head-start, little princeling!"
  • "Jarvan! Where shall I hang your royal corpse?"
  • "Bad news, your highness! It's time to end your bloodline."

First Encounter with Jinx

  • Sylas laughs mockingly. "Do what thou wilt, Jinx!"

First Encounter with Lux

  • "Your secret is safe with me, Luxanna. Remember that kindness."
  • "Every light casts a shadow, Luxanna."

First Encounter with Poppy

  • "I wonder... is that hammer meant for me?"

First Encounter with Quinn

  • "Soar through the clouds, bird girl... but the earth quakes beneath you!"

First Encounter with Ryze

  • "Ah... you're holding something magical. Aren't you, Rune Mage?"

First Encounter with Sona Both sides

  • "Discord is the best chord, Sona."

First Encounter with Taliyah

  • "Do your walls keep others out... or you in?"
  • "You raise walls, I destroy them. Let's see who prevails!"

First Encounter with Twitch

  • "I had to eat rats in prison. Suppose I could do it again."

First Encounter with Vayne

  • "Do not mourn your parents, Vayne. They had it coming!"

First Encounter with Yasuo

  • "I've done my time, Yasuo. Prepare to do yours!"

First Encounter with Zed

  • "Shadows are for cowards, Zed."

First Encounter with a Noxian

  • "Noxian swine, Demacian swine. They'll all end up at the slaughter."

First Encounter with a Prisoner (Alistar, Graves, Jhin, Urgot, Veigar, Xin Zhao)

  • "You've been to prison. You know how this goes."

First Encounter with a Vastaya

  • "The Vastaya have suffered much. But get in my way, and you will suffer more."

First Encounter with a foreign Demacian (Shyvana, Sona, Xin Zhao)

  • "You traveled across the world to die for someone else's king? Pathetic!"

Taunt

  • "Let me help you think for yourself."
  • "Return to your master, like the lapdog you are."

Joke

  • "These things are killing me! ...Oh, yeah, that's the spot."

Joke Response

  • "Ugh... that was worse than wizard prison."

Attack

Attacking

  • "You think you're better than me?!"
  • "You'll have to kill me!"
  • "You picked the wrong side!"
  • "You're part of the problem!"
  • "Wake up!"
  • "I'm not going back to the dungeons!"
  • "Topple the hierarchy!"
  • "Heads will roll!"
  • "Join me or die!"
  • "I serve no one!"
  • "Catch me if you can!"
  • "Conformist swine!"
  • "My streets!"
  • "Run, sheep, run!"
  • "I'll show you magic!"
  • "Die with your lords!"
  • "Bring it all down!"
  • "I do not kneel!"
  • "Face what you've made!"
  • "Freedom before peace!"
  • "No more masters!"
  • "Revolution now!"
  • "The crown is a lie!"
  • "There is no king!"
  • "Free Demacia!"
  • "Unshackle your mind!"
  • "Look! A hostage."
  • "This is the truth!"
  • "Long live the rebellion!"
  • "Sweet liberation!"
  • "Magic is rising."

Attacking › Attacking a Demacian

  • "Smash the throne!"

Ability Casting

Using Hijack › Stealing an ultimate

  • "Rightfully mine!"
  • "Magic cannot be caged!"
  • "Let's level the playing field!"
  • "What's yours is mine!"
  • "Call it 'redistribution of magic'."
  • "Share and share alike."
  • "I'll give it back. Promise!"
  • "Let's see what you're made of!"
  • "Give it up!"
  • "Cheers!"
  • "I'll make good use of this."

Using Hijack › Stealing Amumu's Curse of the Sad Mummy

  • "A powerful curse indeed!"

Using Hijack › Stealing Annie's Summon: Tibbers

  • "I think I found your bear!"

Using Hijack › Stealing Brand's Pyroclasm

  • "Time to watch it burn!"

Using Hijack › Stealing Fiddlesticks' Crowstorm

  • "A murder of crows... you know, for murder!"

Using Hijack › Stealing Fiora's Grand Challenge

  • "En garde, blue blood!"

Using Hijack › Stealing Galio's Hero's Entrance

  • "At last, the entrance I deserve!"

Using Hijack › Stealing Garen's Demacian Justice

  • "Surrender your sword, Crownguard."
  • "Might is wasted on the mighty!"
  • "I've got your justice!"

Using Hijack › Stealing Jarvan IV's Cataclysm

  • "We'll bring the cataclysm home!"
  • "A crown, a crown for everyone!"

Using Hijack › Stealing Kayle's Divine Judgment

  • Sylas laughs triumphantly. "Sanctimonious."

Using Hijack › Stealing Lux's Final Spark

  • "For your own good, little light."
  • "Let's use that spark to light a fire!"
  • "Your spark is wasted, girl."

Using Hijack › Stealing Morgana's Soul Shackles

  • "Such magic should never be bound."
  • "Chains for everyone!"

Using Hijack › Stealing Poppy's Keeper's Verdict

  • "I'm just a convict with a hammer."

Using Hijack › Stealing Quinn's Behind Enemy Lines

  • "This rebellion just got wings."

Using Hijack › Stealing Ryze's Realm Warp

  • "Now, let's see what's on that scroll."

Using Hijack › Stealing Sona's Crescendo

  • "Fortississimo!"
  • "Let me speak for you, Sona."

Using Hijack › Stealing an enemy Sylas' Hijack stolen from his own

  • "Well... this is going to be confusing."

Using Hijack › Stealing Teemo's Noxious Trap

  • "Ooh! I feel so toxic!"

Using Hijack › Stealing Thresh's The Box

  • "Time to jail the jailers."

Using Hijack › Stealing Yasuo's Last Breath

  • "The winds blow in my favor."

Using Hijack › Stealing Zed's Death Mark

  • "I'm no stranger to shadows."

Using Hijack › Stealing an Area-of-Effect ultimate (Gangplank's Cannon Barrage, Jinx's Super Mega Death Rocket!, Miss Fortune's Bullet Time, Vel'Koz's Life Form Disintegration Ray, Ziggs' Mega Inferno Bomb)

  • "This will send them running."

Using Hijack › Stealing a monster's ultimate (Cho'Gath's Feast, Dr. Mundo's Maximum Dosage, Elise's Spider Form / Human Form, Kha'Zix's Void Assault, Nocturne's Paranoia, Rek'Sai's Void Rush, Shyvana's Dragon's Descent)

  • "They always said I was a monster."

Using Hijack › Stealing a skillful champion's ultimate (Lee Sin's Dragon's Rage, Pyke's Death from Below, Riven's Blade of the Exile, Vayne's Final Hour, Yasuo's Last Breath, Zed's Death Mark)

  • "Now it is I who tries hard!"

Using Hijack › Stealing certain support champions' ultimate (Bard's Tempered Fate, Blitzcrank's Static Field, Braum's Glacial Fissure, Janna's Monsoon, Karma's Mantra, Leona's Solar Flare, Lulu's Wild Growth, Morgana's Soul Shackles, Nami's Tidal Wave, Rakan's The Quickness, Soraka's Wish, Tahm Kench's Devour, Taric's Cosmic Radiance, Zyra's Stranglethorns)

  • "Support for the cause!"

Using Hijack › Stealing a time-based ultimate (Ekko's Chronobreak and Zilean's Chronoshift)

  • "I'm great at doing time."

Using Hijack › Stealing a "mediocre" ultimate (Anivia's Glacial Storm, Jayce's Transform Mercury Hammer / Transform Mercury Cannon, Kassadin's Riftwalk, Kog'Maw's Living Artillery, Singed's Insanity Potion, Udyr's Wingborne Storm, Volibear's Stormbringer, Zoe's Portal Jump)

  • "That's all you've got?!"
  • "Sure, why not?"
  • "Better than nothing."
  • Sylas chuckles. "I actually feel cheated."
  • "I guess I can work with this."
  • "Ugh!" Sylas scoffs. "What do you do with this?"

Kills and Objectives

Killing Galio

  • "A true symbol of our nation."

Killing Garen

  • "And that's how we slaughter swine."

Killing Jarvan IV

  • "That's going to leave a power vacuum."

Killing Lux

  • "I am sorry, little light."

Killing a champion by using their own ultimate on them

  • "Oh, the irony."
  • "A little taste of your own!"
  • "Hurts, doesn't it!"
  • "A fitting sentence!"
  • "Well, that was satisfying."

Recall

  • Sylas grunts. "Sometimes... you gotta pardon... yourself!"
  • Sylas grunts. "...Let's blow this rat cage!"
  • Sylas grunts. "Always stay one step ahead of the law!"
  • Sylas grunts. "This... is how we make a getaway."
  • Sylas grunts. "Our chains... are only as strong... as we think they are."
  • Sylas grunts. "The revolution must pause... (softly) temporarily."
  • Sylas grunts. "That which restrains us begs to be broken!"
  • Sylas grunts. "Attack, retreat, consolidate, repeat."

Death

  • "I am... martyred."
  • "Spread my words..."
  • "Take me home..."
  • "At last... no walls."

Respawn

  • "Not the first time I've had my neck in a noose."
  • Sylas chuckles. "I had worse beatings in prison."
  • "No time to lick wounds. Always hit the ground running."
  • "As long as I draw breath, so does the revolution."
  • "Even death cannot chain me."
  • "I died many deaths in my cell. This is nothing."

Skin voices

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Dark Star 139 lines

See this skin in 3D: Dark Star Sylas

Movement › First Move

  • "I was forged in the fires of distant stars... A weapon. A liberator. An immutable truth."
  • "Now, you face death, destroyer of worlds!"
  • "They think themselves gods and rulers—uncontested, unassailable. Shall we shatter that illusion?"
  • "I am the headsman of the universe. The blade that severs space and time."

Movement › First Move › First Move with an Ally Cosmic

  • "Cousins, let us set aside our grievances. Your reckoning can wait!"

Movement › First Move › First Move with an Ally Dark Star

  • "Siblings of the Dark Star. We are united in our inevitability!"

Movement › Moving

  • "What once bound me has become my greatest power."
  • "The universe cares not for our whims!"
  • "What has been consumed is never erased—merely changed."
  • "Nothing corrupts so easily as unchecked power."
  • "Does any corner of this universe remain unscarred?"
  • "These cosmic tyrants must be humbled!"
  • "I must exist, so long as others grasp for power beyond their own."
  • "Inequity bleeds the universe of its own future."
  • "This overgrown world could use a little devastation..."
  • "Rulers far above the world, seldom watch their feet below."
  • "My hands crush stars into the dust from whence they came!"
  • "Justice does not decay!"
  • "Space and time shackle me no longer!"
  • "I suffer no starlit sovereigns."
  • "Creation without end will suffocate us all."
  • "I came from many. It is to many, I answer."
  • Sylas lowers his voice. "Surrounded by infinity, I no longer see the splendor in each moment..."
  • "My existence is a testament to disorder!"
  • "Gilded chains are chains, still."

Movement › Long Move

  • "The cosmic dregs cling to power as they flail helplessly. More concerned with themselves than with the universe!"
  • "We are but ashes of what the Dark Stars consumed. A hollow trace of all that remains."
  • "I've felt suffering through a thousand mortal screams as they were ripped apart: atom by atom—thread by thread."
  • "Echoes of a dead world cry out in my dreams. Voices seeking justice. I will grant them what they were denied!"
  • "Wanton creation is not the answer to destruction! To both, the answer is entropy."
  • "Good and evil are but hollow idols. There is only justice—and what must be done to achieve it."
  • "I was born of meanless masses. I am their legacy; their final gasp in an uncaring universe."
  • "The Court fell to hubris. The Dark Star's progeny think themselves better, but they will meet the same fate."
  • "My cosmic family deceived themselves... Believed their stardust towers could never fall! Pathetic."
  • "My cousins feared me, STIFLED ME! But now, I am free—and I will be their dread made manifest!"

First Encounter

  • "Look at this little creature! A paltry moon on a doomed orbit."
  • "Do not mistake me. I strike you down, only to set the cosmos right."
  • "It seems everybody wants to rule the universe!"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Dark Cosmic Diana

  • "You saw the truth, Diana. Will you now join me—or must I prove my power first?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Dark Cosmic Jhin

  • "There is a difference between conceptual art and wayward debris, Jhin."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Dark Star Kai'Sa

  • "What dark matter made you into this, Kai'Sa?!"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Cosmic Lux

  • "Little star, your binding did not hold. Trying to chain me again?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Dark Cosmic Lux

  • "Oh, little star... What a monster you have made of yourself."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Dark Star Thresh

  • "Ahh, the Dark Star. And its mindless shepherd!"

First Encounter › First Encounter with Dark Star Yorick

  • "You sow seeds of oblivion on the soil of nothingness, Yorick... I wonder what will bloom."

First Encounter › First Encounter with Dark Star Zoe

  • "You play with the stars as if they were toys, Zoe! Do you know what horrors you enact?"

First Encounter › First Encounter with a Cosmic

  • "You try to breathe life into a universe choked by your own hands. Cosmic fool."

First Encounter › First Encounter with a Cosmic Paladin

  • "Poor little thing. Plucked from your dying world and set to fight a war you can hardly comprehend!"

First Encounter › First Encounter with a Dark Star

  • "Creatures of entropy. Doomed to accelerate their own destruction!"

First Encounter › First Encounter with a Dark Cosmic

  • "A taste of the Dark Star's truth broke you. I understand... They do not."

Taunt

  • "You are but specks in the maw of a vast universe."

Taunt › Taunt Response

  • "Humor does distract from the existential dread, doesn't it?"

Joke

  • "YES! YES! YES!!!"

Joke › Taunt Response

  • "Humor does distract from the existential dread, doesn't it?"

Attack › Attacking

  • "The draw of destruction!"
  • "I will show you oblivion!"
  • "The COSMIC EQUALIZER!"
  • "Step into my orbit!"
  • "Break this cycle!"
  • "Give in to my gravity!"
  • "Stare into the abyss!"
  • "How you tremble!"
  • "I am your liberation!"
  • "Shall I SET YOU FREE?"
  • "You are mere dust!"

Ability Casting › Using Hijack › Stealing an ultimate

  • "THE COSMIC CYCLE!"
  • "STEAL THE STARS THEMSELVES."
  • "ENTROPY COMES FOR US ALL."
  • "I AM A TOOL OF RIGHTEOUS DESTRUCTION."
  • "ECHOES MADE MANIFEST."
  • "To be repurposed is the fate of all things."

Ability Casting › Using Hijack › Stealing Akali's Perfect Execution

  • "Moving at the speed of shadow!"

Ability Casting › Using Hijack › Stealing Aurelion Sol's Falling Star

  • "A SUPERNOVA in the making!"

Ability Casting › Using Hijack › Stealing Aurora's Between Worlds

  • "The space between worlds."

Ability Casting › Using Hijack › Stealing Diana's Moonfall

  • "SEIZE THE MOON!"

Ability Casting › Using Hijack › Stealing Garen's Demacian Justice

  • "I don't know why, but I think I'd enjoy killing you."

Ability Casting › Using Hijack › Stealing Lux's Final Spark

  • "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"

Ability Casting › Using Hijack › Stealing Yasuo's Last Breath / Yone's Fate Sealed

  • "RIDE THE SOLAR WINDS."

Ability Casting › Using Hijack › Stealing Zoe's Portal Jump

  • "Into the wormhole!"

Ability Casting › Using Hijack › Ranking for the First Time

  • "I will bend their power to my cause!"

Kills and Objectives

  • "...And the universe spins on."
  • "Every star burns out one day!"
  • "The stardust settles."
  • "You end—and nothingness begins."
  • "Perfectly balanced!"
  • "Now you die like the rest of us, so far from the light of creation."
  • "You were always debris in the making."
  • Sylas speaks in a solemn tone. "To be so unaware of your own doom."
  • "Snuffed out!"
  • "The stars aligned."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Dark Cosmic Diana

  • "Diana, I thought you might see beyond the dark horizon."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Dark Cosmic Jhin

  • "A pile of rubble is just that, Jhin—it has no poetry."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Dark Star Kai'Sa

  • "Kai'Sa, scourge of stars: you serve a purpose even in destruction."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Cosmic Lux

  • "Little star... You could've outshined them all."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Dark Cosmic Lux

  • "You grasp for power just like them, little star... And so, you fail me."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Dark Star Thresh

  • "The Dark Star was power you were never meant to have, Thresh!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing Dark Star Yorick

  • "Your garden will flourish without you, Yorick! Emptiness always does."

Kills and Objectives › Killing Dark Star Zoe

  • "Learn what you toy with before it toys with you, Zoe."

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Cosmic

  • "One less cosmic courtier."

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Cosmic Paladin

  • "Go. Join the rest of your cold, dead world."

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Dark Star

  • "I release you from your endless struggle. Be free."

Kills and Objectives › Killing a Dark Cosmic

  • "Find peace in the oblivion you so dearly love!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing a champion by using their own ultimate on them

  • "Crushed by your own gravity."
  • "You swallow yourself whole."
  • "Don't fear erasure."
  • "You are... redundant."
  • "Be destroyed; be remade."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring First Blood

  • "You may be the first, you will not be the last."

Kills and Objectives › Scoring a Pentakill

  • "No Courts... nor Dark Stars... Shall STAY THE HAND OF JUSTICE!"

Kills and Objectives › Destroying a Turret

  • "Puny monuments to feeble gods."
  • "You use these flimsy weapons? To what end?!"
  • "Every tower crumbles before me."
  • "These will not protect you from the Dark Star!"

Kills and Objectives › Killing Baron Nashor

  • "I will fell any tyrant. Including you, Baron!"

Shopping › Opening the Shop

  • "These small gold tokens mean so much to so many! ...And little, to me."
  • "Power gained in exchange for resources! I accept this equivalence."
  • "I spend time, energy... Spending gold is... novel!"

Other Gameplay › Leveling Up

  • "No longer bound. No longer held back."
  • "The event horizon draws closer."
  • "An object in motion."

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Assist Me'

  • "Join me!"

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Danger'

  • "Beware!"

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'Enemy Missing'

  • "Without a trace..."

Other Gameplay › Pinging › 'On My Way'

  • "I am imminent."

Recall

  • "My existence is rebellion—eroding the powerful!"
  • "I am everywhere and nowhere. Everything, and nothing."
  • "I bide my time. They do not yet know to tremble, but they will."
  • "Corruption takes root in power. It must be ripped out like a weed!"
  • "The universe keeps turning and turning. I will shape its final form!"
  • "These planets orbit my purpose. I am their axis!"

Death

  • "Someone... must... fight..."

Death › Respawn

  • "The tyrants yet remain. So must I."
  • "Dark matter remakes me once more. I am still needed!"
  • "I heard them again. Screaming in the space between stars."
  • "I sank into a sea of stars and emerged whole once more."
  • "Consume, create... and consume again."
  • "I am reborn in destruction; given form in nothingness."
  • "Unfractured, unfettered, unfailing in my purpose."
  • "From oblivion we are made—and to oblivion, we return."

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