Support · 73 games · NA

Sylas

Support · 8% of games Mid · 47%Top · 8%Jungle · 38%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+209 gold).

Win rate: 49.3%; ±11.5 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #24 of 50
Pick rate: 1.2%; ban 19.6%
Games: 73; ranked solo/duo

Sylas support wins 49.3% of 73 ranked games in NA, rank 24 of 50 support champions (tier B). Most players finish Hextech Rocketbelt first, at about 12:48.

The build at a glance

What most Sylas players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Hextech Rocketbelt 13:03 · 80% · 51 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 14:48 · 52% of games

Item 2

Zhonya's Hourglass 24:06 · 79% · 19 games

Item 3 · late game

Shadowflame 27:24 · 3 of 11 games

Runes

Electrocute · Domination + Sorcery 14% of games · 30% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 93% of games · 50% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 93% of games · 50% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Kingslayer first 67% of games · 49% wins Skill orders →

When Sylas wins

Win rate by game length

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′56% wins34% of games · 25

Lasts 25′ or more43% wins58% of games · 42

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Sylas games

First tower: 71% against 19%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First tower 19% 71% +52

First dragon 25% 64% +39

First Baron 35% 70% +35

Rift Herald 36% 68% +32

First blood 47% 51% +4

First Voidgrubs 57% 46% −11

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Sylas plays

More solo kills, more multikills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average support. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More solo kills a game0.6 against 0.2 · +215%

More multikills a game0.22 against 0.10 · +120%

More damage a minute599 against 364 · +64%

More share of team damage17% against 10% · +59%

More deaths a game8.2 against 5.9 · +40%

About average: vision.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~13:12

Item 2done ~23:18

Item 3done ~29:36

Item 4done ~36:24

Most common full builds

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Zhonya's Hourglass 50%10

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Health Potion + Health Potion50.0%68

Dark Seal + Health Potion + Health Potion100.0%1

Health Potion100.0%1

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~14:4842.1%38

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~14:0671.4%14

Mercury's Treads ~14:3637.5%8

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite50.0%68

Exhaust + Flash50.0%4

Flash + Heal0.0%1

Skills

Max

Q49.0%49

Max

W63.6%11

Start

Q42.9%56

Start

W73.3%15

Dies more than most supports

Before 14 minutes Sylas dies 3.8 times a game (average 2.5). 45% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 46% for the average support. 12% are fair 1-v-1s.

3.8deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.5)

45%involve the enemy junglerabout average (46%)

88%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (90%)

31%with no teammate nearmore than average (26%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Sylas dies before 14 minutes

Ganked in your half of bot lane, collapsed on in their half of bot lane

Ganks: 19% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 40% in their half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 39% in their half of bot lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average support

What kills Sylas

Kind of death

Sylas Average

Gank 45% (avg 46%)Collapse 43% (avg 44%)1-v-1 12% (avg 10%)

Who gets the kill

Sylas Average

Bot laner 38% (avg 42%)Jungler 27% (avg 24%)Support 16% (avg 15%)Mid laner 12% (avg 15%)Top laner 5% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Sylas Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Sylas; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Sylas wins fights

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your jungle

Before 14 minutes: 1.4 kills per death in their half of mid against 0.3 in your jungle. Overall 0.6 kills per death.

Their half of bot lane 0.6 K/D 49 / 84

Your half of bot lane 0.3 K/D 20 / 68

The bot-side river 0.3 K/D 9 / 28

Their half of mid 1.4 K/D 21 / 15

Your jungle 0.3 K/D 7 / 27

Their jungle 0.9 K/D 16 / 17

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Sylas wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 49% of their team's dragon takes (average support 50%). The team wins 61% when Sylas is there and 63% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 10:00 (average 11:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 44%; for Sylas it is 50% against 33%.

Sylas

What most Sylas players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First tower: 71% against 19%

More solo kills, more multikills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Sylas's games

Dies more than most supports

Ganked in your half of bot lane, collapsed on in their half of bot lane

What kills Sylas

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your jungle

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your jungle

Where fights happen