Hi! I'm Ivan, a Sylas top Player, I've reached Challenger a few times with Sylas in the toplane, and I've got over 1 million points with him,

I do streams at twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ivan_beifong

Also, I post youtube videos, but those are very little:
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The champ itself is not too difficult, you just have to play around the enemy cooldownds, and if you die 2-3 times, you're out of the game, however, thanks to item changes, the champ is now more playable in the toplane, there isn't much to say about the playstyle, and there aren't many combos.

As I said, most of the time you want to keep short trades, because Sylas's cooldownds are pretty long in the early game, there are matchups where it's easier to trade at levels 1-3, like Gangplank or Kayle, but most of them you should trade at level 4-5.









Sylas has the potential to carry games, but this is greatly determined by how many good ults you have, unless you're really fed, there are many interactions with ults, and I'll post them as I remember them

You can E2+W at the same time, and its animation will play at the same time.






Also, if you E2 at someone, you can use your R as you're flying at them, you can also do this to guarantee a hit of a stolen R, for example, if you have Irelia's R, you can E2 at someone and through the journey, you can hit Irelia's R, being a sure hit, this applies for many ults

ROCKETBELT BUILD: It's the most usual item, because it gives almost everything Sylas wants, except mana, it's the most used by me too, unless they have a team that has access to a lot of MR items, like two tanks in top and jg, the dash itself is nice for repositioning in case you're near the wave, or even clear it if the minions are low enough, clearing the way to hit your E2.

The build works pretty well if there's only one tank, and it works when you think you won't have mana issues or run out of mana in long trades, mana issues can be softly fixed by going mana runes, but it's not the same as the Liandrys build.

Champs that this build works against are ranged champions, Gangplank, Riven, Gwen, champs that usually don't buy mr or don't stack hp as much.





LIANDRYS BUILD: As I said before, usually I build this if I feel my damage won't be enough against my laner, or if there's more than 1 tank-ish champ on the enemy team, for example, Chogath, Dr Mundo, and it comes along with Sylas's second problem, running out of mana mid fight.

Black-fire torch and Liandrys synergize very well, and BFT's passive of 4% ap works wonders alongside Conqueror, usually with this build you want to go ionians and stack AH like that, you can get up to 70 AH with full build.

Some times it'll be complicated, because there are champs like Renek who sometimes buy Eclipse as first item, and other times they build Black Cleaver or tankier items, so it's ideal to figure out what the enemy laner is buying too.