Sylas Support build & stats
- Win rate
- 51.5%
- Pick rate
- 1.1%
- Ban rate
- 17.2%
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Recommended build
Chosen by win rate among builds with enough games, from ranked matches of high-elo players on patch 16.18
Best three items so far
Boots
Then, depending on the game
Runes
Domination +
Sorcery 
Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage.
Domination
Sorcery
Summoner spells
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. Not enough players have finished the same three items yet, so the core above is the three strongest items measured one by one. Sample sizes are shown next to every choice.
Tips for Sylas
Generated from this patch's numbers
- Sylas wins 51.5% of games as Support on patch 16.18 (307 games).
- Most common core: Hextech Rocketbelt → Zhonya's Hourglass → Shadowflame — 59% win rate over 17 games.
- Take Electrocute as keystone: picked in 73% of games with a 55% win rate.
- Best matchup: Thresh (79% over 14 games). Hardest: Pyke (10% over 10 games) — consider a ban or a different pick when you see it.
- Sylas is an early-game champion: 50% win rate in games under 25 minutes but 41% after 35. Snowball your lead into towers and objectives.
- Banned in 17% of games — have a backup pick ready.
Items
Most common sets of three completed items
Core build
Boots
Legendary items by win rate
| Item | Win rate | Pick |
|---|---|---|
| 100.0% | 1% (3) | |
| 58.6% | 9% (29) | |
| 56.4% | 18% (55) | |
| 50.0% | 3% (10) | |
| 33.3% | 3% (9) |
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.
Domination
Sorcery
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.
55.4%18% pick
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Dark Harvest
Damaging a low health champion inflicts adaptive damage and harvests a soul from the victim.
0.0%1% pick
Summoner spells
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Flash + Ignite
54.2%19% pick
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Exhaust + Flash
66.7%1% pick
Abilities & skill order
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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 LashSylas 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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WKingslayerSylas lunges at an enemy with magical force dealing damage and healing himself against enemy champions.
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EAbscond / AbductSylas 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.