Top · 248 games

Sylas

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

Strongest when games end at 20–25 minutes (54%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−93 gold).

Win rate: 46.0%; ±6.2 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: D; #87 of 95
Pick rate: 1.3%; ban 18.7%
Games: 248; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Sylas top wins 46.0% of 248 ranked games, rank 87 of 95 top champions (tier D). Most players finish Hextech Rocketbelt first, at about 11:24.

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 11:27 · 72% · 170 games

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity 11:48 · 48% of games

Item 2

Riftmaker 20:19 · 68% · 84 games

Item 3

Zhonya's Hourglass 27:24 · 77% · 27 games

Item 4 · late game

Rabadon's Deathcap 30:36 · 6 of 21 games

Runes

Conqueror · Precision + Resolve 19% of games · 59% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 93% of games · 46% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 57% of games · 47% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Kingslayer first 60% of games · 49% wins Skill orders →

When Sylas wins

Wins early, fades from 25 minutes

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

Ends before 25′45% wins43% of games · 107

Lasts 25′ or more47% wins55% of games · 136

Lanes

Good into Gnar, Malphite

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

What wins Sylas games

First Baron: 77% against 28%

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

First Baron 28% 77% +50

First tower 26% 73% +47

Rift Herald 33% 63% +30

First dragon 30% 59% +29

First blood 35% 56% +21

First Voidgrubs 46% 46% +1

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 multikills, less damage to towers

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

More multikills a game0.54 against 0.41 · +32%

Less damage to towers6300 against 8411 · −25%

Fewer minions a minute6.6 against 7.5 · −12%

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

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 ~26:06

Item 4done ~31:06

Most common full builds

Hextech Rocketbelt › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Riftmaker › Zhonya's Hourglass 40.7%27 games

Hextech Rocketbelt › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass 50.0%6 games

Hextech Rocketbelt › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Riftmaker › Bloodletter's Curse 60.0%5 games

Lich Bane › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass 25.0%4 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Rod of Ages › Riftmaker › Zhonya's Hourglass 100.0%3 games

Dusk and Dawn › Sorcerer's Shoes › Riftmaker › Zhonya's Hourglass 66.7%3 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

Zhonya's Hourglass 50%16

Shadowflame 50%18

Rabadon's Deathcap 40%5

Riftmaker 40%40

Lich Bane 38%8

Bloodletter's Curse 30%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

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion45.7%230

Doran's Shield + Health Potion55.6%9

Dark Seal + Refillable Potion66.7%3

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~11:4846.7%120

Sorcerer's Shoes ~13:5447.7%65

Mercury's Treads ~15:1248.4%31

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport47.2%142

Flash + Ignite41.7%96

Exhaust + Flash75.0%8

Skills

Max

Q48.7%150

Max

E45.1%51

Start

Q45.3%148

Start

W46.8%47

Hard lanes

No clearly hard lane yet

Easy lanes

Good into Gnar, Malphite

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 2 of 3, still wins 1 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 (26)

Gragas 38% · 8

Akali 43% · 7

Renekton 33% · 6

Irelia 33% · 6

Zaahen 40% · 5

Riven 20% · 5

Gangplank 80% · 5

Jax 40% · 5

Darius 75% · 4

Pantheon 75% · 4

Camille 50% · 4

Jayce 25% · 4

Draven 50% · 4

Rumble 50% · 4

Olaf 25% · 4

Kennen 75% · 4

Kayle 100% · 3

Ornn 33% · 3

Singed 0% · 3

Veigar 0% · 3

Ambessa 0% · 3

Nasus 33% · 3

Shen 33% · 3

Urgot 67% · 3

Yasuo 0% · 3

Sion 33% · 3

Sylas vs Malphite · 56 games · Solid sample

Sylas does better than expected here

55%winsexpected 46%

+750gold at 15′average −93

+11.4minions at 10′ahead or behind

25%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.96 a game

Gold lead against Malphite Sylas's average lead

Against Malphite, Sylas is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 75% of games and wins 51% of those. When behind, Sylas wins 64%.

Ahead at 15′51% wins41 games

Behind at 15′64% wins14 games

Full Sylas vs Malphite page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Sylas games: Talon, Kai'Sa, Alistar

Enemy jungle Trouble

Talon32% · exp. 44% −1222 games

Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy mid Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble

Kai'Sa32% · exp. 47% −1519 games

Lucian31% · exp. 46% −1416 games

Easier

Tristana53% · exp. 44% +917 games

Jhin55% · exp. 48% +720 games

Enemy support Trouble

Alistar37% · exp. 43% −730 games

Easier

Nautilus54% · exp. 49% +524 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 about as often as most top laners

Before 14 minutes Sylas dies 2.5 times a game (average 2.4). 40% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 40% for the average top laner. 51% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.5deaths per game before 14′about average (2.4)

40%involve the enemy junglerabout average (40%)

49%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (49%)

82%with no teammate nearabout average (83%)

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 their half of top lane, collapsed on in your half of top lane

Ganks: 36% in their half of top lane. Collapses: 33% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 51% in your half of top 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 top laner

What kills Sylas

Kind of death

Sylas Average

Gank 40% (avg 40%)Collapse 9% (avg 9%)1-v-1 51% (avg 51%)

Who gets the kill

Sylas Average

Bot laner 2% (avg 2%)Jungler 25% (avg 24%)Support 3% (avg 2%)Mid laner 8% (avg 7%)Top laner 61% (avg 63%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Sylas Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 and 9:00. 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 jungle, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.8 kills per death in their jungle against 0.6 in your half of top lane. Overall 1.0 kills per death.

Their half of top lane 1.2 K/D 287 / 231

Your half of top lane 0.6 K/D 154 / 269

The top-side river 0.7 K/D 32 / 48

Their jungle 1.8 K/D 41 / 23

Their half of mid 2.3 K/D 27 / 12

Your jungle 1.7 K/D 20 / 12

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 dragonsWorth knowingNear 17% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 55% when Sylas is there and 65% when not.

Leaving laneWorth knowingFirst shows up in mid lane around 14:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 50%; for Sylas it is 37% against 53%.

Sylas

What most Sylas players run

Wins early, fades from 25 minutes

Good into Gnar, Malphite

First Baron: 77% against 28%

More multikills, less damage to towers

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

Good into Gnar, Malphite

Behind at 15 against 2 of 3, still wins 1 of them

Sylas does better than expected here

Sylas does better than expected here

About what you would expect

Enemies that cost Sylas games: Talon, Kai'Sa, Alistar

Teammates that change Sylas's games

Dies about as often as most top laners

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

What kills Sylas

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your half of top lane

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

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your jungle