SylasMatchups Spreadsheet
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Optimized Sylas builds, runes, skill orders, and matchup strategies — plus expert tips and guides for every Sylas matchup. Brought to you by League of Matchups, your source for counter-picking insights.
| Matchup | Threat | Games | WR | Gold @ 15 | Gold Diff | Tips | |
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 Ahri  | Very Hard | 802 | 51% | -28 | +134 | Bait out her charm and dont dash until she uses it, her charm will cancel your dash midway negating your heal, go for a kill lane with ignite. Ahri ult is incredibly useful for gap close or limit test with strong escape | |
Skill Priority W Kingslayer Sylas lunges at an enemy with magical force dealing damage and healing himself against enemy champions.  E Abscond / Abduct Sylas dashes to a location. Sylas can recast the ability to throw his chains out, pulling himself to an enemy he hits.  Q Chain 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. 53.58% WR 405 Matches Summoner Spells  50.30% WR 332 Matches Skill OrderQ Chain 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. 3 14 15 17 W Kingslayer Sylas lunges at an enemy with magical force dealing damage and healing himself against enemy champions. 2 4 5 7 9 E Abscond / Abduct Sylas dashes to a location. Sylas can recast the ability to throw his chains out, pulling himself to an enemy he hits. 1 8 10 12 13  R Hijack Sylas steals the enemy's ultimate ability and can cast it freely. 6 11 16                       50.6% WR474 Matches       Starting Items   50.6% WR 261 Matches Core Items   63.2% WR 19 Matches 4th Item Options55.8% WR52 Matches  62.2% WR45 Matches  50.0% WR32 Matches 5th Item Options60.0% WR15 Matches 66.7% WR12 Matches 60.0% WR10 Matches 6th Item Options50.0% WR4 Matches 33.3% WR3 Matches  66.7% WR3 Matches Laning Phase (@15 min)Gold Diff-28 CS Diff-9 XP Diff-149 Ally Ganks1.37 Enemy Ganks1.70 KDA3 / 2 / 2 End of GameTotal Gold Diff+134 Total CS Diff-17 Total XP Diff0 KDA7 / 6 / 6 Split Push | |||||||
 Galio | Very Hard | 398 | 44% | -86 | -67 | Big counter to Sylas, you want to be a tank for this matchup so you don't die when he cc's you. Play around Galio's abilities and be safe 1-3 and steal Galio's ult when you think he's going to roam so you can match him. Take Teleport as well to match. Long Trades with conquerer is ideal here, likely going to need jg help for kills | |
 Akali | Very Hard | 396 | 52% | -285 | -490 | Similar to Sylas to where she can be tanky and do tons of damage, her not using mana, and pokking you is very hard to deal with. Her ultimate is extremely useful but her shroud is the main threat. Be safe for first 3 levels. Play around it being down and don't hang around the shroud. Recommened to ban this matchup | |
 Viktor | Very Hard | 357 | 53% | +73 | +38 | He scales better than Sylas but the laning phase isn't too bad due to Viktor's long cd's and his passive. You need to play around his gravity field early. Play passive till level 3, Viktor will likely try to kill you before then, after 3 you can go for trades. Go very aggressive and don't let him kite you and go for the burst | |
 Zed | Very Hard | 357 | 50% | -308 | -1020 | Once Zed uses shadow, he's pretty immobile. Its not too hard to manuever around him and burst him when his W is down. Post6, dont ult zed first, let him ult first then ult him second. Always be watchful of shadows. Post 3 you can trade pretty well with him. Go Zhonyas 2nd item and get Seeker's armguard asap. Zed's ultimate is very useful and you get a shadow when you cast it which you can recast to teleport back | |
 TwistedFate | Very Hard | 335 | 50% | -368 | -866 | He will keep shoving the lane and roaming, you should take TP to match him. When he shoves the wave, clear it as soon as possible and don't let it reach tower. If you clear the wave and make it go into TF's tower he can't roam. Do not be afraid to use mana on the wave. Do not steal TF ult unless you have an objective up, its a teamplay ultimate with a very long CD so make it count. | |
 Yasuo | Very Hard | 328 | 54% | -141 | -645 | You lose hard pre 3 especially if they have conquerer, he'll try to poke you as you cs so go around the minions and be wary, Yasuo passive is also rough, use Sylas Q to pop his shield before you fight him. Yasuo Windwall can block your ability to steal ultimates.Yasuo R is great to steal because you can use it off of your own E2 chains. Rush Seeker's armguard first here | |
 Orianna | Very Hard | 306 | 45% | +40 | -340 | Hard Harass matchup for the laning phase, you'll get poked endlessly and you'll need Teleport. Just trust that you'll outscale and you can use Orianna's ultimate for some nice combos. You can do a few trades after level 3 but do not let her get phase rush procs. Ganks are welcome here | |