Sylas
Hardest matchups for Sylas in Jungle (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Ivern, 
Wukong, 
Briar. Easiest: 
Nasus, 
Shyvana, 
Malphite.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into SylasOn the pro tier list
Sylas on patch 16.22
- Mid48.3%#77 of 91C17,223 games
- Jungle49.6%#50 of 74B16,895 games
- steady since 16.21
Sylas’s main role on patch 16.22 is Mid: a 48.3% win rate across 17,223 Emerald games, #77 of 91 Mid champions on the tier list (grade C), picked in 6.9% of games. Sylas is also played Jungle: a 49.6% win rate across 16,895 games, #50 of 74. Since patch 16.21, Sylas Mid has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.1 points across 116,892 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jungle43% of its games | B | 49.1%49.1% raw ±0.4 | 48,633 | 7.0%20.1% banned | 50.7%47.0% first time |
| Mid41% of its games | C | 48.2%48.1% raw ±0.4 | 46,822 | 6.7%20.0% banned | 49.5%48.8% first time |
| Support9% of its games | C | 47.8%47.6% raw ±1.0 | 9,768 | 1.4%20.1% banned | 49.0%45.6% first time |
| Top7% of its games | B | 49.4%49.3% raw ±1.1 | 8,316 | 1.2%20.1% banned | 50.3%48.9% first time |
| Bot0% of its games | too few games | 47.3%42.1% raw ±4.4 | 497 | 0.1%20.0% banned | 50.6%46.8% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Sylas’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Sylas, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Sylas
Lane leads and team bans
What Sylas’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Sylas than the other team does in the same games (351,813 games). The other team banned before Sylas was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Sylas was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Sylas is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- AP sustained
50.2%43,582 games - AP burst
51.2%4,497 games - Crit
49.5%65 games - AD bruiser
50.4%32 games - Mana stack
50.1%6 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Sylas does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
52,278 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Smite49.1% · 52,239 games
ConquerorPrecision + Inspiration · 49.6%
Triumph · Legend: Haste · Last Stand · Magical Footwear · Cosmic InsightShards: Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Start: Scorchclaw Pup · 51.2%
Key items: Hextech Rocketbelt → Riftmaker · 49.4%
Boots: Mercury's Treads · 52.4%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Smite49.1%52,239 games · 100% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Keystones
- Conqueror + Inspiration49.6%40,767 games · 78% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Dark Harvest + Inspiration49.5%5,174 games · 9.9% pick rate · same players: −0.9 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Conqueror + Resolve44.8%3,744 games · 7.2% pick rate · same players: −2.9 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Minor runes with Conqueror
- Triumph49.6%91% take it
Presence of Mind45.0%8.8% take it
- Legend: Haste49.2%99% take it
- Last Stand49.1%95% take it
Cut Down50.1%3.0% take it
- Cosmic Insight49.5%96% take it
- Magical Footwear49.5%93% take it
Cash Back51.6%6.2% take it
Triple Tonic51.7%4.5% take it
- Adaptive Force49.2%96% take it
- Attack Speed46.1%2.5% take it
- Adaptive Force49.1%100% take it
- Health50.8%10% take it
- Health Scaling48.9%89% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Sylas’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Sylas’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Sylas does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Sylas wins 47.6%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 51.5%. That gap ranks it 122 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 160K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Sylas in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 48.6%91W 105L | 12%14% in any lane | 80% counter | −249 gold | — |
| Jungle | 49.2%4W 9L | 1%14% in any lane | 77% counter | +14 gold | — |
| Top | 49.7%4W 6L | 1%14% in any lane | 100% counter | −255 gold | — |
| Bot | 49.4%0W 4L | 0%14% in any lane | 75% counter | −307 gold | — |
| Support | 50.2%1W 0L | 0%14% in any lane | 100% counter | +1,613 gold | — |
How much knowing Sylas pays
Players on their Mastery band win 4.0 points more on Sylas than first-timers do: #122 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Sylas players win 51.5%: #132 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 52.9% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
SylasDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Sylas ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Yone, Yasuo, Viktor.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.