Taliyah vs Sylas Counter Pick

Across 365 games, the jungle pairing lands at 57.3% in Taliyah’s favour on patch 16.13.1, rated Easy. Both champions hit with magic damage, so armour drops out of the equation and magic resistance becomes the number that settles trades: Taliyah has 28, Sylas 32.

Their differences:

• Range: 525 for her, 175 for him. Sylas must use Abscond / Abduct to close the gap, and Unraveled Earth stops any dash that crosses it with a stun.
• Health growth: by level 18 he has 2,674 health to her 2,318, which makes a long fight a poor route to victory for her.
• Sustain: Kingslayer restores his health each time it strikes a champion, while nothing in her kit matches that.

Hijack decides a lot. Sylas can take Weaver’s Wall and deploy it as his own engage, which turns her long-range travel ultimate into a tool for him. Using it only to reposition while his ultimate is active is therefore costly. Petricite Burst punishes anyone who lets him mix in auto attacks between spells up close. His base armour of 29 barely matters against a magic-damage opponent, so the trade is really about who gets crowd control off first. The dependable counter is Seismic Shove into her own minefield, which turns forced movement into a stun without needing him to commit to a dash. His full ability list is on the Sylas champion page.