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League of Legends Sylas Build Guide

Here is a post about Sylas champion from League of Legends. You will find brief information with tips and tips on how to play Sylas. Read our Sylas build and cheat sheet. In our League of Legends builds you will see the most popular and universal variation of any build.

All League of Legends Sylas Skins

Raised in one of Demacia’s lesser quarters, Sylas of Dregbourne has come to symbolize the darker side of the Great City. As a boy, his ability to root out hidden sorcery caught the attention of the notorious mageseekers, who eventually imprisoned him for turning those same powers against them. Having now broken free, Sylas lives as a hardened revolutionary, using the magic of those around him to destroy the kingdom he once served… and his band of outcast mage followers seems to grow by the day.

The Unshackled Sylas is one of the most popular champions in LoL. His main role is mage and you will see him on the mid lane. Every champion in League of Legends has its uniqueness determined by his skills.

Passive
Petricite Burst

After casting a spell, Sylas stores a charge of Petricite Burst. Sylas’s basic attacks will expend a charge and whirl his energized chains around him dealing bonus magic damage to enemies hit. While Sylas has a charge of Petricite Burst, he gains attack speed.

Q
Chain Lash

Sylas lashes his chains out, intersecting at his targeted location dealing damage to and slowing enemies. After a delay, magical energy explodes from the intersection point dealing damage.

W
Kingslayer

Sylas lunges at an enemy with magical force dealing damage and healing himself against enemy champions.

E
Abscond / Abduct

Sylas dashes to a location. Sylas can recast the ability to throw his chains out, pulling himself to an enemy he hits.

R
Hijack

Sylas steals the enemy’s ultimate ability and can cast it freely.

Counter Picks and Sylas’s Win Rate

It is great when you know how to play a champion. But much in LoL depends on counter picks. On the stage when you choose and ban champions you should ban the ones that can counter Sylas and vice versa if you see that Sylas is strong against the enemy team’s carry you’ll need to pick Sylas.

Some players prefer to know the win and lose rate of the champion before trying to play him. You can see Sylas counter picks and win rate in the toolkit via the image above.

Sylas Best Build

Below you can see the best build for LoL Sylas which is calculated on the average winning builds in the Platinum+ league. All builds that we share automatically update when new changes or patches appear. What you see below is the build for Sylas on the middle lane.

As you can see from the build above there is mentioned Sylas rune set with the best potential for Sylas. You can see what runes are main for the character and which are taken for some extra assistance. Also, there are mentioned minor nodes that you can take to play Sylas in League of Legends.

Under the rune set, you can see the best summoner spells used with Sylas. The overall tier for the champion is mentioned just next to the summoner spells.

As for the best item set, you can see starting items. These are the items that you need to buy at the start of the game before you go on your lane. Next to it, there are early items, later you will upgrade them to the whole items for Sylas build. Finally, you can see Mythical and Core items that you’ll need to focus on to win the game.

Skill order or skill priorities are very important in the game so that you will start winning the lane before you buy any powerful items. The skill priority and order for Sylas is mentioned under the items. Skill order shows what skill you should upgrade on every level.