Sylas

Sylas came up in one of Demacia‘s poorer districts, and that background still defines him. He embodies the very thing the Great City’s glittering image is meant to hide. As a child, he showed an unusual knack for detecting concealed sorcery. The mageseekers recognized the value of that gift and exploited it, but the moment he turned it against them, they had him imprisoned.

The cell didn’t crush him. It hardened him into a revolutionary. Now freed, Sylas of Dregbourne wages war by taking the kingdom’s magic for himself, seizing enemy spells instead of depending solely on his own. Along the way, a growing group of outcast mages has rallied behind him, drawn by the same injustice Demacia dealt them, and his cause shows no sign of losing momentum.

Stealing power is at the heart of his combat style. Petricite Burst, his passive, builds a charge with every spell he casts, and once spent, it empowers his next basic attack. Chain Lash lashes out his shackles to slow foes before they explode, Kingslayer leaps him toward a target and restores his health when he hits champions, and Abscond carries him away in a dash; recasting it hauls him back toward an enemy snared by Abduct. Hijack, his ultimate, reveals the most about his character: he takes an opponent’s ultimate outright and fires it as his own. For a man jailed for turning stolen strength against his jailers, seizing an enemy’s greatest weapon and using it on them feels less like a trick and more like a creed. Labeled a Mage who plays like an Assassin, he belongs in the mid lane, and each chain he casts and each borrowed ultimate he unleashes runs on the same Mana pool as any other caster in Demacia.