
⛓️ S10 CHALLENGER SYLAS OTP ULTIMATE GUIDE (11.4)
By Rime101 | Updated on March 5, 2021x

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Runes: Standard
1
2
3
4
5
Precision





Inspiration






+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+8 Magic Resist
Spells:
1
2
3
Fleet (Q max)

Flash

Teleport
Items
Ability Order Standard
Threats & Synergies


Extreme
Major
Even
Minor
Tiny

None
Low
Ok
Strong
Ideal



Zoe
My permaban. Full Matchup Spreadsheet linked at bottom of guide!

Champion Build Guide
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WELCOME! GUIDE UPDATED: March 05, 2021 for Patch 11.5. Everfrost and Cosmic drive recently got buffed. Verdant Barrier and Banshees got buffed on 11.3. VERDANT BARRIER IS SLEEPER OP. KEEP INVESTING! ![]() Guide TLDR beginner; Take ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are the only AP on the team ![]() ![]() I'm Rime, I finished season 9 Challenger 650LP, and Season 10 Grandmaster 145LP on NA server. Season 10 I focused more on streaming and providing educational content over climbing so you can expect high elo game from my Twitch. I became a Sylas OTP mid season 10 and have played 1500+ games of him since. If you don't want to read here's my in depth video guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7YMHttw0lc Build path is outdated on the youtube guide but it still has matchups/ combos. Everything in this guide is how I play Sylas and is simply what I take & what works best for me. THIS GUIDE IS SOLOQ BASED, I NO LONGER PLAY IN AMATEUR SO IF YOU PLAY IN COMPETITIVE OR ARE A PRO PLAYER I OBVIOUSLY WOULDNT RECOMMEND FULL AGGRO IGNITE PLAYSTYLE. Late game bruiser builds are stronger in lower elo's (longer avg game length) and pro play because of how hard it is to play aggressive since enemy team is in 5 man comms, BUT for SOLOQ high damage works great. The guide isn't perfect, I'm just sharing my knowledge since I've learned so much playing him. |
ITEMS ARE GETTING CHANGED EVERY PATCH SO I CANT TELL YOU 100% WHATS BEST
THE 11.4 PATCH NOTES:
Everfrost
BUILD PATH Lost Chapter + Blasting Wand + 1250 gold ⇒ Lost Chapter + Blasting Wand + Kindlegem + 450 gold
HEALTH 200 ⇒ 250
GLACIATE DAMAGE 100 (+30% AP) ⇒ 125 (+25% AP)
GLACIATE CAST TIME 0.25 seconds ⇒ 0.15 seconds
everfrost got multiple buffs so it may be broken af this patch
Cosmic Drive
REMOVED SPELLDANCE MOVEMENT SPEED Cosmic Drive no longer grants bonus movement speed when dealing ability damage
NEW PUT IT IN COSMIC DRIVE If you have at least 160 ability power, gain 20 ability haste and 10-30 movement speed (based on level)
ABILITY HASTE 30 ⇒ 20
so basically cosmic drive is op because it gives 40 haste now.
The most OP items you can build on 11.5 are
Dark Seal
Cosmic Drive
Verdant Barrier
Seeker's Armguard
Void Staff. Build these items whenever you can.
Also
Everfrost may or may not be OP
FOR PATCH 11.5
Cosmic Drive &
Zhonya's Hourglass are CORE ITEM
Current Build I am Using is:
Ionian Boots of Lucidity -->
Everfrost into -->
Cosmic Drive -->
Zhonya's Hourglass +
Mejai's Soulstealer. Other items depend on enemy team comp. Lots of mr?
Void Staff Healing?
Morellonomicon Are you rich?
Rabadon's Deathcap Good ults?
Chemtech Putrifier + haste stat rune
If you are an experienced sylas player and are playing as the only AP on the team recommend running
Electrocute. Build
Luden's Tempest
Cosmic Drive
Sorcerer's Shoes
Mejai's Soulstealer and
Zhonya's Hourglass
Morellonomicon vs
Chemtech Putrifier
Chemtech putrifier can be stronger then morello some games. If you are already building everfrost and cosmic drive and you need to build antiheal the 20 cdr from chemtech is often better then the 250 health and 30 ap from morello. Not sure which is better but its definitely something to think about as I build chemtech a lot instead.







THE 11.4 PATCH NOTES:

BUILD PATH Lost Chapter + Blasting Wand + 1250 gold ⇒ Lost Chapter + Blasting Wand + Kindlegem + 450 gold
HEALTH 200 ⇒ 250
GLACIATE DAMAGE 100 (+30% AP) ⇒ 125 (+25% AP)
GLACIATE CAST TIME 0.25 seconds ⇒ 0.15 seconds
everfrost got multiple buffs so it may be broken af this patch

REMOVED SPELLDANCE MOVEMENT SPEED Cosmic Drive no longer grants bonus movement speed when dealing ability damage
NEW PUT IT IN COSMIC DRIVE If you have at least 160 ability power, gain 20 ability haste and 10-30 movement speed (based on level)
ABILITY HASTE 30 ⇒ 20
so basically cosmic drive is op because it gives 40 haste now.
The most OP items you can build on 11.5 are





Also

FOR PATCH 11.5


Current Build I am Using is:









If you are an experienced sylas player and are playing as the only AP on the team recommend running








Chemtech putrifier can be stronger then morello some games. If you are already building everfrost and cosmic drive and you need to build antiheal the 20 cdr from chemtech is often better then the 250 health and 30 ap from morello. Not sure which is better but its definitely something to think about as I build chemtech a lot instead.
2 IMPORTANT THING ON SYLAS IS TO STAY UP IN LEVELS! ![]() Because of his high base health building armor/MR is generally better then building HP, making items like ![]() ![]() ![]() I highly recommend building ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |







The build I go most consists of the three core items
Everfrost ➨
Cosmic Drive ➨
Zhonya's Hourglass
Luden's Tempest ➨
Cosmic Drive➨
Void Staff



OR



KEEP IN MIND THAT TAKING SLIGHTLY BAD TRADES ON SYLAS IS GOOD FOR SYLAS!
Fleet Footwork Q max sylas play safe and look to farm up until you have 2 or 3 items. Max order with Fleet build is Q > W > E. Generally stronger with
Liandry's Anguish as your mythic item. Currently the most consistent, will always be strong. Is especially strong on Patch 11.1 because rushing
Ionian Boots of Lucidity are extremely broken. With only Ionian and Liandries with transcendence runes you will have 50+ Haste which is an extremely strong powerspike for Sylas. I highly recommend Fleet Sylas for players trying to pickup Sylas because it helps with his weak laning phase.
Conqueror is also more of a mid-late game rune that works better with 2+ items. Highly recommend going for
Liandry's Anguish every game you have
Conqueror.
Zhonya's Hourglass is also important for playing with conqueror because your job is to dive in full combo, zhonya with conq stacks then continue fighting.
Cosmic Drive is most likely your best 3rd item when going conqueror and liandries.
Electrocute ADVANCED
Much weaker on 11.4 because of how strong defensive items are. It is difficult to play an assassin playstyle vs champs with
Immortal Shieldbow
Sterak's Gage [[verdant barrier] etc.
Electrocute W max sylas you can look to play aggressive early game. When laning level 1 as Sylas your goal should be to hit level 2 1 or 2 minions before your lane opponent, DO NOT HARD SHOVE, and keep in mind that if they hit 2 first you'll lose out on some early CS. If you are laning vs someone melee I recommend starting E and using E1 E2 + 2 Auto attacks level 1 to proc electrocute! If playing vs someone ranged its up to you if you can get a good opportunity to E1 E2 AA to proc electrocute or just q start and farm, game dependent. When playing vs ranged ideally you hit 2 at the same time, they shove you in, the wave bounces back towards their turret and you can recall around level 5 or your jungler can level 3 gank them. Going for heavy trades is ideal because you always have
Kingslayer to heal up while they will be forced to stay low or use potions. Gonna say once again that BAD trades on Sylas aren't necessarily bad because you always have your W. If you can trade 300 of your HP for 200 of their HP always do it.









Much weaker on 11.4 because of how strong defensive items are. It is difficult to play an assassin playstyle vs champs with


Electrocute W max sylas you can look to play aggressive early game. When laning level 1 as Sylas your goal should be to hit level 2 1 or 2 minions before your lane opponent, DO NOT HARD SHOVE, and keep in mind that if they hit 2 first you'll lose out on some early CS. If you are laning vs someone melee I recommend starting E and using E1 E2 + 2 Auto attacks level 1 to proc electrocute! If playing vs someone ranged its up to you if you can get a good opportunity to E1 E2 AA to proc electrocute or just q start and farm, game dependent. When playing vs ranged ideally you hit 2 at the same time, they shove you in, the wave bounces back towards their turret and you can recall around level 5 or your jungler can level 3 gank them. Going for heavy trades is ideal because you always have

As of right now I believe ![]() I want to make electrocute work but it is very hard to use well on 11.4. Defensive items such as ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I've tried every rune you could think of and my overall opinion is that ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sylas has extremely weak laning phase pre level 6. You can go ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Below is your ideal rune page when running a ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |




You should take





![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are laning vs ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are laning vs ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are laning vs double AD champions such as ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Below is the rune page you will want to run vs Zed/Talon/Yone/Lucian. Use the same page Vs Ekko Diana Fizz just with MR runes instead of Armor. |


Experienced Sylas PlayersTake the runes below if you are an experienced sylas player looking to Snowball/ 1v9 in ranked. These runes are especially strong vs melee mids such as ex. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also take these runes if the enemy team has ultimates with good AP ratios, ex. ![]() ![]() ![]() Below is the rune page I run when I am the only ap on the team. Making a full damage build much stronger then fleet scaling. |



For early laning phase you basically lose trades vs every champ level 1,2, & 3. Just play safe, farm up, use potions, and know that your biggest power spike is level 9.
3 points in


Spam Abilities when taking down turrets for more damage + attack speed
Max


When laning vs


When playing vs

You get ranged form when you steal

You get melee form when you steal


If you take

Some ults are good to hold onto just for laning phase such as


Build


Build



Build



Build







Best 3 ults in the game to steal are



Also keep in mind a lot of ults have insanely high AP ratios for no reason because Riot is a bunch of trolls. Ults like




My Ultimate tier list is on a google spreadsheet linked below
I have a matchup spreadsheet on a google doc as well as an Ultimate Tier list for Sylas:
CLICK THIS
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16lC9hutxugFT9eOFoVWKrKNpWuAhApshUSDgciphRWA/edit?usp=sharing
Apologies but I don't want to take the time to make everything pretty on Mobafire so instead Im just linking the spreadsheets. On the bottom you can look at different spreadsheets ex. top matchups and mid matchups. FOR SEASON 11 I AM JUST RUNNING ELECTROCUTE EVERY SINGLE GAME AND HAVING A LOT OF SUCCESS.
CLICK THIS
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16lC9hutxugFT9eOFoVWKrKNpWuAhApshUSDgciphRWA/edit?usp=sharing
Apologies but I don't want to take the time to make everything pretty on Mobafire so instead Im just linking the spreadsheets. On the bottom you can look at different spreadsheets ex. top matchups and mid matchups. FOR SEASON 11 I AM JUST RUNNING ELECTROCUTE EVERY SINGLE GAME AND HAVING A LOT OF SUCCESS.

Thanks for reading my guide! My apologies that I only finished GM this season I've really been more focused on staying positive and enjoying myself while streaming!
I will be updating the guide throughout pre-season as items continue to get buffed and nerfed.
If you have any questions you wanna ask me I check discord almost everyday!
https://discord.gg/jutGVfr
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