Sylas Mid build & stats
- Win rate
- 50.0%
- Pick rate
- 7.3%
- Ban rate
- 18.1%
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Recommended build
Chosen by win rate among builds with enough games, from ranked matches of high-elo players on patch 16.16
Start with
Build in this order
Boots
Runes
Domination +
Precision 
Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage.
Domination
Precision
Summoner spells
Max order
Q
W
E
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 50.0% of games as Mid on patch 16.16 (1,644 games).
- Most common core: Hextech Rocketbelt → Riftmaker → Zhonya's Hourglass — 56% win rate over 48 games.
- Take Conqueror as keystone: picked in 61% of games with a 49% win rate.
- Best matchup: Malphite (88% over 8 games). Hardest: Aurora (23% over 26 games) — consider a ban or a different pick when you see it.
- Banned in 18% of games — have a backup pick ready.
Items
Core build in purchase order (from match timelines)
Core build
Starting items
Boots
Legendary items by win rate
| Item | Win rate | Pick |
|---|---|---|
| 80.0% | 1% (10) | |
| 70.0% | 1% (20) | |
| 65.8% | 5% (76) | |
| 63.3% | 18% (294) | |
| 63.2% | 1% (19) | |
| 57.1% | 6% (98) | |
| 54.3% | 20% (337) | |
| 53.7% | 4% (67) | |
| 52.3% | 42% (683) | |
| 51.6% | 11% (188) | |
| 50.0% | 1% (10) | |
| 37.5% | 0% (8) |
Runes
Most played full pages and keystone win rates
Precision +
Resolve 
Gain stacks of adaptive force when attacking enemy champions. After reaching 12 stacks, heal for a portion of damage you deal to champions.
Precision
Resolve
Domination +
Sorcery
Precision +
Resolve
Keystones
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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.
50.3%30% pick
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Electrocute
Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage.
54.7%17% pick
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Stormraider's Surge
Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist.
50.0%1% pick
Summoner spells
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Flash + Ignite
51.3%27% pick
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Flash + Teleport
53.4%21% pick
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Exhaust + Flash
42.9%0% pick
Abilities & skill order
Which ability to max first, from match timelines
W
E
Q
57.6%59 games
Q
W
E
61.3%31 games
Q
E
W
31.3%16 games
Most common first three levels: E → W → Q (58%), E → Q → W (48%), Q → E → W (44%).
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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.