Mid · 1,504 games

Sylas

Mid · 46% of games Support · 7%Jungle · 38%Top · 8%Bot · 1%

Strongest when games end at 30–35 minutes (50%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−299 gold).

Win rate: 47.9%; ±2.5 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #64 of 81
Pick rate: 7.9%; ban 18.7%
Games: 1,504; ranked solo/duo

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Sylas mid wins 47.9% of 1,504 ranked games, rank 64 of 81 mid champions (tier C). Most players finish Hextech Rocketbelt first, at about 11:18.

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 11:29 · 77% · 1134 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 12:48 · 40% of games

Item 2

Riftmaker 19:59 · 55% · 479 games

Item 3

Zhonya's Hourglass 26:12 · 86% · 180 games

Item 4

Rabadon's Deathcap 32:12 · 56% · 18 games

Item 5 · late game

Banshee's Veil 33:54 · 3 of 20 games

Runes

Conqueror · Precision + Resolve 10% of games · 48% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 94% of games · 48% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 53% of games · 49% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Kingslayer first 49% of games · 50% wins Skill orders →

When Sylas wins

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

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

Ends before 25′48% wins45% of games · 674

Lasts 25′ or more48% wins55% of games · 827

Lanes

Watch out for Orianna, Taliyah, Kassadin

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

What wins Sylas games

First Baron: 81% against 30%

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

First Baron 30% 81% +51

First tower 27% 69% +42

Rift Herald 36% 65% +29

First dragon 35% 60% +26

First Voidgrubs 41% 55% +14

First blood 41% 54% +13

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

Fewer multikills, more deaths

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

Fewer multikills a game0.63 against 0.74 · −15%

More deaths a game6.2 against 5.5 · +14%

More time spent dead6.8s against 6.0s a minute · +13%

Less damage to towers5980 against 6819 · −12%

Fewer minions a minute6.7 against 7.6 · −12%

About average: vision, damage, assists, share of team damage, kill participation, control wards.

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 ~11:24

Item 2done ~19:48

Item 3done ~25:36

Item 4done ~30:12

Item 5done ~33:42

Most common full builds

Hextech Rocketbelt › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Riftmaker › Zhonya's Hourglass 58.1%148 games

Hextech Rocketbelt › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass 54.2%59 games

Hextech Rocketbelt › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Riftmaker › Zhonya's Hourglass › Rabadon's Deathcap 55.6%18 games

Hextech Rocketbelt › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap 58.8%17 games

Lich Bane › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass 37.5%16 games

Hextech Rocketbelt › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Riftmaker › Bloodletter's Curse 68.8%16 games

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

Rabadon's Deathcap 76%37

Lich Bane 67%15

Banshee's Veil 60%5

Riftmaker 54%186

Zhonya's Hourglass 54%154

Shadowflame 52%134

Bloodletter's Curse 51%57

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

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion48.2%1411

Doran's Shield + Health Potion43.6%55

Dark Seal + Refillable Potion37.5%16

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~12:4849.3%603

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~11:5447.9%476

Mercury's Treads ~12:1851.5%293

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite48.9%792

Flash + Teleport47.2%695

Exhaust + Flash55.6%9

Skills

Max

Q49.5%733

Max

W51.0%298

Start

Q47.0%734

Start

W49.6%367

Runes · 1,504 games

Laid out like the game: the most picked rune in each row is in colour. Hover or tap a rune for its name, description and numbers.

Precision · 47% win · 785 games

Keystones

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100%47%

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12%45%

87%48%

Resolve · 49% win · 1,046 games

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99%48%

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Most played pages

48%151 games

60%117 games

44%106 games

48%79 games

48%61 games

Hard lanes

Watch out for Orianna, Taliyah, Kassadin

Easy lanes

Good into Anivia, Lucian, Zed

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 30 of 38, still wins 9 of them

Expected: what Sylas's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (31)

Neeko 33% · 9

Fizz 33% · 9

Corki 89% · 9

Veigar 50% · 8

Jayce 38% · 8

Nasus 63% · 8

Riven 43% · 7

Cho'Gath 57% · 7

Garen 57% · 7

Mel 71% · 7

Zilean 83% · 6

Kayle 33% · 6

Malphite 80% · 5

Tristana 40% · 5

Ambessa 80% · 5

Annie 40% · 5

Gragas 40% · 5

Tryndamere 40% · 5

Sion 75% · 4

Morgana 50% · 4

Viego 25% · 4

Heimerdinger 50% · 4

Kennen 67% · 3

Smolder 67% · 3

K'Sante 33% · 3

Gangplank 67% · 3

Karma 33% · 3

Brand 0% · 3

Vel'Koz 33% · 3

Kai'Sa 100% · 3

Renekton 33% · 3

Sylas vs Locke · 98 games · Solid sample

Sylas does better than expected here

52%winsexpected 49%

−652gold at 15′average −299

−2.8minions at 10′ahead or behind

18%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.65 a game

Gold lead against Locke Sylas's average lead

Against Locke, Sylas is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 59% of games, and still wins 33% of those. When ahead, Sylas wins 80%.

Ahead at 15′80% wins40 games

Behind at 15′33% wins58 games

Full Sylas vs Locke page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Sylas games: Yasuo, Zac, Jinx, Pantheon

Enemy top Trouble

Yasuo24% · exp. 46% −2225 games

Urgot31% · exp. 50% −1916 games

Dr. Mundo38% · exp. 49% −1224 games

Easier

Pantheon62% · exp. 45% +1729 games

Sion68% · exp. 51% +1822 games

Fiora55% · exp. 44% +1156 games

Enemy jungle Trouble

Zac30% · exp. 47% −1623 games

Talon38% · exp. 46% −768 games

Wukong37% · exp. 45% −843 games

Easier

Nidalee60% · exp. 43% +1752 games

Kayn65% · exp. 48% +1731 games

Diana74% · exp. 53% +2119 games

Enemy bot Trouble

Jinx39% · exp. 47% −789 games

Kai'Sa44% · exp. 49% −5113 games

Zeri44% · exp. 49% −561 games

Easier

Seraphine80% · exp. 49% +3115 games

Varus64% · exp. 50% +1422 games

Sivir59% · exp. 51% +822 games

Enemy support Trouble

Pantheon35% · exp. 52% −1723 games

Janna36% · exp. 47% −1150 games

Poppy33% · exp. 45% −1221 games

Easier

Rakan64% · exp. 48% +1661 games

Maokai69% · exp. 44% +2516 games

Blitzcrank59% · exp. 47% +1259 games

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies more than most mid laners

Before 14 minutes Sylas dies 2.7 times a game (average 2.2). 50% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 50% for the average mid laner. 34% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.7deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.2)

50%involve the enemy junglerabout average (50%)

66%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (67%)

61%with no teammate nearabout average (61%)

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

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

Ganks: 26% in your half of mid. Collapses: 27% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 51% in your half of mid.

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 mid laner

What kills Sylas

Kind of death

Sylas Average

Gank 50% (avg 50%)Collapse 17% (avg 17%)1-v-1 34% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Sylas Average

Bot laner 7% (avg 7%)Jungler 27% (avg 28%)Support 6% (avg 7%)Mid laner 55% (avg 54%)Top laner 4% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00–7:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

Sylas Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 5:00 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 bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 2.7 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.3 in your half of mid. Overall 1.1 kills per death.

Their half of mid 1.5 K/D 1552 / 1041

Your half of mid 0.3 K/D 423 / 1422

The bot-side river 1.1 K/D 426 / 385

Their jungle 1.7 K/D 457 / 274

Their half of bot lane 2.7 K/D 533 / 194

Your jungle 1.1 K/D 293 / 276

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 25% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 67% when Sylas is there and 69% when not.

Sylas

What most Sylas players run

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

Watch out for Orianna, Taliyah, Kassadin

First Baron: 81% against 30%

Fewer multikills, more deaths

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

Watch out for Orianna, Taliyah, Kassadin

Good into Anivia, Lucian, Zed

Behind at 15 against 30 of 38, still wins 9 of them

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Enemies that cost Sylas games: Yasuo, Zac, Jinx, Pantheon

Teammates that change Sylas's games

Dies more than most mid laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Sylas

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00–7:00 and 8:00–10:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

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

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