Sylas Support build & stats
- Win rate
- 46.3%
- Pick rate
- 1.3%
- Ban rate
- 18.5%
Recommended build
Chosen by win rate among builds with enough games, from ranked matches of high-elo players on patch 16.17
Start with
Build in this order
Boots
Runes
Domination +
Sorcery 
Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage.
Sudden Impact
Grisly Mementos
Relentless Hunter
Transcendence
Scorch
Summoner spells
46.6%
236 games
Max order
W
E
Q
50.0%
20 games
Each line is the variant with the best win rate among those played enough times, not simply the most popular one. Win rates are smoothed so a lucky three-game build can't top the list. Sample sizes are shown next to every choice.
Tips for Sylas
Generated from this patch's numbers
- Sylas wins 46.3% of games as Support on patch 16.17 (255 games).
- Most common core: Hextech Rocketbelt → Zhonya's Hourglass → Riftmaker — 82% win rate over 11 games.
- Take Electrocute as keystone: picked in 92% of games with a 48% win rate.
- Best matchup: Karma (78% over 9 games). Hardest: Alistar (25% over 16 games) — consider a ban or a different pick when you see it.
- Sylas scales: 61% win rate after 35 minutes versus 45% before 25. Farm safely early and never surrender.
- Banned in 19% of games — have a backup pick ready.
Items
Most common sets of three completed items
Core build
Starting items
Boots
Legendary items by win rate
| Item | Win rate | Pick |
|---|---|---|
| 75.0% | 2% (4) | |
| 71.4% | 3% (7) | |
| 66.7% | 1% (3) | |
| 57.1% | 3% (7) | |
| 56.0% | 10% (25) | |
| 53.8% | 36% (93) | |
| 52.6% | 7% (19) | |
| 46.8% | 18% (47) | |
| 46.3% | 90% (229) |
Runes
Most played full pages and keystone win rates
Domination +
Sorcery
Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage.
Sudden Impact
Grisly Mementos
Relentless Hunter
Scorch
Transcendence
Domination +
Sorcery
Domination +
Resolve
Keystones
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Electrocute
Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage.
48.1%92% pick
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Conqueror
Gain stacks of adaptive force when attacking enemy champions. After reaching 12 stacks, heal for a portion of damage you deal to champions.
18.2%4% pick
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Stormraider's Surge
Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist.
33.3%1% pick
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Dark Harvest
Damaging a low health champion inflicts adaptive damage and harvests a soul from the victim.
33.3%1% pick
Summoner spells
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Flash + Ignite
46.6%93% pick
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Exhaust + Flash
41.7%5% pick
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Flash + Heal
42.9%3% pick
Abilities & skill order
Which ability to max first, from match timelines
W
E
Q
50.0%20 games
W
Q
E
100.0%2 games
Most common first three levels: E → W → Q (47%), E → Q → W (47%), Q → E → W (0%).
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PPetricite BurstAfter 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...
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QChain 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.
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WKingslayer
Sylas lunges at an enemy with magical force dealing damage and healing himself against enemy champions.
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EAbscond / Abduct
Sylas dashes to a location. Sylas can recast the ability to throw his chains out, pulling himself to an enemy he hits.
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RHijackSylas steals the enemy's ultimate ability and can cast it freely.