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Sylas Build Guides, Runes and Items

Sylas The Unshackled

Find the best Sylas build guides for League of Legends S14 Patch 14.7. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Sylas build for the S14 meta. Learn more about Sylas' abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!

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Sylas Build & Runes

If you're looking for the best rune build for Sylas we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Sylas, as determined by calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Sylas this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 14.7. However, if you are a new Sylas player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Sylas!

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Patch 14.7: 100,935 matches scanned * Each section of the build is rated independently of the others

Sylas's Runes

Sylas's Best Runes 51%

Win Rate 58% Pickrate

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Domination
LoL Path: Domination
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Sorcery
LoL Path: Sorcery
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Second Best

Sylas's 2nd Best Runes 48%

Win Rate 17% Pickrate

Precision
LoL Path: Precision
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Resolve
LoL Path: Resolve
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Third Best

Sylas's 3rd Best Runes 53%

Win Rate 7% Pickrate

Domination
LoL Path: Domination
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Inspiration
LoL Path: Inspiration
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Sylas's Summoner Spells

Sylas's Best Summoner Spells 50%

Win Rate 70% Pickrate

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Second Best

Sylas's 2nd Best Summoner Spells 51%

Win Rate 29% Pickrate

Flash Ignite

Third Best

Sylas's 3rd Best Summoner Spells 50%

Win Rate 0% Pickrate

Exhaust Flash

Sylas's Starters

Sylas's Best Starter Items 50%

Win Rate 89% Pickrate

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Sylas's Core Items

Sylas's Best Core Items 56%

Win Rate 12% Pickrate

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Sylas's Runes

Sylas's Best Runes 48%

Win Rate 50% Pickrate

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Domination
LoL Path: Domination
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Inspiration
LoL Path: Inspiration
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Second Best

Sylas's 2nd Best Runes 46%

Win Rate 21% Pickrate

Domination
LoL Path: Domination
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Sorcery
LoL Path: Sorcery
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Third Best

Sylas's 3rd Best Runes 47%

Win Rate 9% Pickrate

Inspiration
LoL Path: Inspiration
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Domination
LoL Path: Domination
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Sylas's Summoner Spells

Sylas's Best Summoner Spells 46%

Win Rate 54% Pickrate

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Second Best

Sylas's 2nd Best Summoner Spells 47%

Win Rate 27% Pickrate

Flash Gustwalker Smite

Third Best

Sylas's 3rd Best Summoner Spells 45%

Win Rate 17% Pickrate

Flash Mosstomper Smite

Sylas's Starters

Sylas's Best Starter Items 45%

Win Rate 43% Pickrate

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Sylas's Core Items

Sylas's Best Core Items 52%

Win Rate 12% Pickrate

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Sylas's Ability Order

Sylas's Best Ability Order 47%

Win Rate 41% Pickrate

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Sylas's Runes

Sylas's Best Runes 49%

Win Rate 50% Pickrate

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Precision
LoL Path: Precision
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Resolve
LoL Path: Resolve
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Second Best

Sylas's 2nd Best Runes 50%

Win Rate 21% Pickrate

Domination
LoL Path: Domination
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Sorcery
LoL Path: Sorcery
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Third Best

Sylas's 3rd Best Runes 54%

Win Rate 9% Pickrate

Inspiration
LoL Path: Inspiration
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Resolve
LoL Path: Resolve
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Sylas's Summoner Spells

Sylas's Best Summoner Spells 50%

Win Rate 85% Pickrate

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Second Best

Sylas's 2nd Best Summoner Spells 47%

Win Rate 13% Pickrate

Flash Ignite

Third Best

Sylas's 3rd Best Summoner Spells 50%

Win Rate 1% Pickrate

Teleport Ignite

Sylas's Starters

Sylas's Best Starter Items 48%

Win Rate 88% Pickrate

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Sylas's Core Items

Sylas's Best Core Items 56%

Win Rate 6% Pickrate

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Sylas's Runes

Sylas's Best Runes 50%

Win Rate 62% Pickrate

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Domination
LoL Path: Domination
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Sorcery
LoL Path: Sorcery
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Second Best

Sylas's 2nd Best Runes 53%

Win Rate 8% Pickrate

Domination
LoL Path: Domination
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Inspiration
LoL Path: Inspiration
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Third Best

Sylas's 3rd Best Runes 39%

Win Rate 7% Pickrate

Precision
LoL Path: Precision
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Resolve
LoL Path: Resolve
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Sylas's Summoner Spells

Sylas's Best Summoner Spells 50%

Win Rate 89% Pickrate

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Second Best

Sylas's 2nd Best Summoner Spells 41%

Win Rate 5% Pickrate

Flash Teleport

Third Best

Sylas's 3rd Best Summoner Spells 43%

Win Rate 5% Pickrate

Exhaust Flash

Sylas's Starters

Sylas's Best Starter Items 47%

Win Rate 78% Pickrate

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Sylas's Core Items

Sylas's Best Core Items 60%

Win Rate 11% Pickrate

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Sylas Counters

Learn Sylas' counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Sylas guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!


This counter data is for Sylas MIDDLE in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Sylas. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.

Sylas Skins

Sylas' Abilities

Sylas's Petricite Burst
Petricite Burst Sylas's Passive Sylas's Passive
300
Sylas's Passive
Sylas's Passive
After using an ability, Sylas gains a charge (max 3 charges). Sylas' attacks expend a charge to whirl his chains, dealing 130% (+25% of ability power) attack damage as magic damage to the main target and 40% (+20% of ability power) attack damage as magic damage to other surrounding enemies.

While he has at least one charge, Sylas gains 125% attack speed.
Q
Sylas's Chain Lash
Chain Lash Sylas's Q Ability
775
55
11 / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7
Sylas lashes his chains out, dealing 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 (+40% of ability power) magic damage and slowing by 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35% for 1.5 seconds. The place where the chains intersect explodes, dealing a further 70 / 125 / 180 / 235 / 290 (+90% of ability power) magic damage. This ability deals 40% magic damage to minions and 70% magic damage to monsters.
W
Sylas's Kingslayer
Kingslayer Sylas's W Ability
400
60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100
13 / 11.25 / 9.5 / 7.75 / 6
Sylas lunges at an enemy with magical force dealing 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 / 210 (+90% of ability power) magic damage. Against champions, Sylas restores 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 (+40% of ability power) health, increased by 0-100% depending on his missing health.
E
Sylas's Abscond / Abduct
Abscond / Abduct Sylas's E Ability
400
65
14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10
Sylas quickly dashes, and prepares a recast for 3.5 seconds.

Recast: Sylas throws his chains, pulling himself to the first enemy hit, dealing 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 (+100% of ability power) magic damage and knocking up for 0.5 seconds.
R
Sylas's Hijack
Hijack Sylas's Ultimate (R) Ability
950
75
80 / 55 / 30 / 30 / 30
Sylas hijacks an enemy champion, allowing him to cast a copy of their ultimate ability, depending on his ultimate level and using his stats. Hijacking an enemy places a cooldown on them which is dependant on the enemy ultimate's cooldown. During which time Sylas cannot hijack them again. Sylas can only hold a hijacked ultimate for 90 seconds.
E
Sylas's Abscond
Abscond Sylas's E Ability
400
65
14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10
Sylas quickly dashes, and prepares a recast for 3.5 seconds.
E
Sylas's Abduct
Abduct Sylas's E Ability
800
0
Sylas's Passive
Sylas throws his chains, pulling himself to the first enemy hit, dealing 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 (+100% of ability power) magic damage, and knocking up for 0.5 seconds.

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