Sylas Counters

Here you’ll find every notable Sylas matchup in League of Legends for the MID lane, drawn from actual ranked results rather than guesswork. Right now the hardest lane matchups for Sylas are Taliyah, Ivern and Riven, where it posts its weakest win rates in the current sample. Taliyah is the single worst counter: Sylas takes only 42.7% of its 365 logged games. Going the other way, Sylas does well against Smolder, Malphite, Malphite, so those are the safer matchups to pick into.

Every card lists Sylas’s win rate along with the number of games it is based on. Larger samples carry more weight: a matchup with tens of thousands of games says far more than one with a few hundred. The Easy, Even and Hard tags come straight from the win rate (under 48% reads as Hard, over 52% as Easy), so they simply help you read the numbers rather than adding new data. The figures come from Emerald-and-above ranked games in all regions on patch 16.13.1 and update every 48 hours, so they shift as the meta does. Counters only tell part of the story, so pair them with the current Sylas build for top items and runes, or visit the Sylas champion page for ability details and everything else.