PCSylas
Mage / Assassin
League of Legends (PC)
Sylas was last adjusted in Patch 25.20 (). Across 72 patches, Sylas has received 17 buffs, 7 nerfs, 47 adjustments since release in Patch 9.2.
AbilitiesLeague Wiki
Hijack
- Bug Fix: No longer incorrectly gains Death Surge instead of Unstoppable Onslaught if cast on Sion during his Glory in Death zombie state.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Casting Transcend One's Self no longer causes the icon for his Chain Lash to disappear from the player's HUD.
Prestige T1
- Added Faker's signature to the set in the Loading Screen.
Passive damage to monsters decreased.
Petricite Burst
- Monster damage reduced to 130% from 150%.
Passive now does bonus damage to monsters.
Petricite Burst
- Monster damage increased to 150% from 100%.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Initiating a Rift Herald Rodeo channel while incurring the cast time of a stolen ultimate now properly consumes the slot.
- Bug Fix: Initiating a Teleport / Unleashed Teleport channel while incurring the cast animation of a stolen ultimate no longer unintentionally casts the associated spell a second time.
- Bug Fix: After initiating a Teleport / Unleashed Teleport channel while his model is transformed during all relevant stolen ultimate abilities, Sylas will now properly return to his actual model instead of keeping the transformed model until his death.
Abduct
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that caused it to apply Kingslayer damage and heal multiple times.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Now properly converts copied Ragnarok AD ratios into AP ratios.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Now correctly incurs its slot cooldown upon copying Lightning Crash.
Ashen Slayer
- Bug Fix: Restored wings and props during the Recall animation.
Base health increased. Passive damage increased. W damage increased.
Stats
- Base health increased to 600 from 575.
Petricite Burst
- Primary target AP ratio increased to 30% AP from 25% AP.
Kingslayer
- Base damage increased to 75/110/145/180/215 from 65/100/135/170/205.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Now properly keeps the passive effects of Grandmaster-at-Arms and Highlander for the duration of the active spells.
Base Armor increased. Q cooldown and explosion damage decreased. W heal ratio changed, and damage decreased. E damage decreased.
Stats
- Base armor increased to 29 from 27.
Chain Lash
- Explosion base damage reduced to 60/115/170/225/280 from 70/125/180/235/290.
- Explosion AP ratio reduced to 80% AP from 90% AP.
- Cooldown reduced to 10/9/8/7/6 seconds from 11/10/9/8/7.
Kingslayer
- Damage AP ratio reduced to 70% AP from 80% AP.
- Heal AP ratio reduced to 20% AP from 35% AP.
- New Effect: Heal now scales with 5% of his bonus health.
Abduct
- AP ratio reduced to 80% AP from 100% AP.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: No longer keeps stolen abilities if their hold timer ends during the windup or cast of Empowered Recall.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Now properly gains a charge of Essence Rush on takedown when using Spirit Rush.
- Bug Fix: Hijacking Weaver's Wall from a user while either recast is available for them no longer grants Sylas the recasts themselves, which would be useless without the first cast, instead of granting the entire ability.
Q explosion damage to monsters increased.
Chain Lash
- Monster detonation damage increased to 100% from 70%.
- Minion damage unchanged.
Q monster damage increased.
Chain Lash
- Monster detonation damage increased to 70% from 40%.
- Monster base detonation damage increased to 49/87.5/126/164.5/203 from 28/50/72/94/116.
- Monster detonation AP ratio increased to 63% AP from 36% AP.
- Minion damage unchanged.
Petricite Burst
- Bug Fix: Critical strikes with the empowered attacks now properly benefit from critical strike damage modifiers.
- Bug Fix: Damage now properly benefits from life steal.
Kingslayer
- Bug Fix: Now properly draws the aggro of enemy minions towards the caster if it is used against an enemy champion.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: No longer incorrectly converts AD ratios to AP even if his adaptive damage type was AD.
Petricite Burst
- Bug Fix: Empowered attack's damage now counts as 'single target' against the primary target for the purposes of other systems, such as Press the Attack.
Ashen Slayer, Battle Wolf, Prestige PROJECT, PROJECT
- Hijack
- Bug Fix: Clone model from Hallucinate no longer has corrupted textures if the enemy Shaco was using the following skins: Prestige Soul Fighter, Soul Fighter, Winterblessed, Crime City Nightmare and Arcanist.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Champion portrait UI for hijacked ultimates now displays the correct character icon to indicated the copied ultimate even if the target was a different champion at the time.
Abduct
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that caused Sylas’ E - Abduct to not CC opponents for the proper duration.
Abduct
- Bug Fix: Hitting the ability no longer sometimes has the dash destination offset a long distance from the target's location when the immediate area near the target was not pathable (blocked by units or terrain).
Hijack
- Bug Fix: No longer sometimes becomes disabled if the caster dies during the cast time of a hijacked Weaver's Wall.
- Bug Fix: No longer causes a giant wall to appear when using the PROJECT skin with specific ultimates.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Can now properly cast Inferno Trigger without any stacks of her Daredevil Impulse.
General
- Bug Fix: Particle types are now properly aligned with Battle Wolf body parts.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: On-target cooldown for Devour now properly calculates from its cooldown instead of 0 (the wrapper spell's cooldown), which caused it to use Hijack's minimum target cooldown instead.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Now always steals the active effect of All Out and not the recast if the target had All Out active.
Base health decreased. Q cooldown increased.
Stats
- Base health reduced to 575 from 595.
Chain Lash
- Cooldown increased to 11/10/9/8/7 seconds from 10/9/8/7/6.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: VFX bug when stealing an enemy Chronobreak with the Star Guardian or Prestige Star Guardian skin has been fixed.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Casting a stolen Final Spark no longer consumes 100 mana or fails if used while he has less than 100 current mana.
W mana cost decreased, AP ratio for healing increased, cooldown decreased early. E cooldown decreased early.
Kingslayer
- Mana cost reduced to 50/60/70/80/90 from 60/70/80/90/100.
- Minimum heal AP ratio increased to 40% AP from 35% AP.
- Cooldown reduced to 12/10.5/9/7.5/6 seconds from 13/11.5/10/8.5/7.
Abscond
- Cooldown reduced to 13/12/11/10/9 seconds from 14/13/12/11/10.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: A hijacked Grand Challenge now properly has its heal scale with AP.
Stats
- Base health increased to 595 from 525.
- Health growth increased to 129 from 115.
- Armor growth increased to 5.2 from 4.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 2.55 from 1.75.
Kingslayer
- Minimum base heal reduced to 20/40/60/80/100 from 25/50/75/100/125.
- Minimum heal AP ratio reduced to 35% AP from 40% AP.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Now properly reverts back to Hijack even after the caster dies with Shadow Surge recast being active.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Fixed interactions with stolen Final Spark and stolen Bullet Time.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he would not get another cast of Vex stolen Shadow Surge if the marked target died within the ability's reset window.
Base mana and mana regen increased.
Stats
- Base mana increased to 310 from 280.
- Base mana regeneration increased to 8 from 7.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the cooldown would sometimes not revert correctly if he died while casting a hijacked ultimate.
- Bug Fix: Fixed several visual bugs that occured when he hijacked Gun Goddess Bullet Time.
Q detonation damage increased. W heal decreased.
Chain Lash
- Detonation base damage increased to 70/125/180/235/290 from 60/115/170/225/280.
- Detonation AP ratio increased to 90% AP from 80% AP.
Kingslayer
- Base heal reduced to 25/50/75/100/125 from 30/60/90/120/150.
- Maximum base heal reduced to 50/100/150/200/250 from 60/120/180/240/300.
- Heal AP ratio reduced to 40% AP from 45% AP.
- Maximum heal AP ratio reduced to 80% AP from 90% AP.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Hijacking Devour now properly allows Sylas to apply stacks of An Acquired Taste on his basic attacks against enemy champions.
PROJECT
- Chromas now use its respective chain colors for Abduct.
Petricite Burst
- Bug Fix: Muramana Shock now triggers on secondary targets properly.
Petricite Burst
- Bug Fix: Can no longer gain charges when using certain item actives, such as Everfrost Glaciate or Galeforce Cloudburst.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where stealing an ultimate would remove Petricite Burst stacks.
Passive Unshackled bonus attack speed increased. W cooldown, cost, and heal ratio decreased.
Petricite Burst
- Bonus attack speed increased to 125% from 80%.
Kingslayer
- Cooldown reduced to 13/11.25/9.5/7.75/6 seconds from 13/11.5/10/8.5/7.
- Mana cost reduced to 60/70/80/90/100 from 70/80/90/100/110.
- Heal AP ratio reduced to 45% AP from 50% AP.
Q cost flattened. W damage increased.
Chain Lash
- Mana cost changed to 55 at all ranks from 50/55/60/65/70.
Kingslayer
- Base damage increased to 70/105/140/175/210 from 60/95/130/165/200.
- Damage AP ratio increased to 90% AP from 85% AP.
Petricite Burst
- Bug Fix: Now properly gets kill credit for empowered attacks landed.
Stats
- Mana growth increased to 70 from 50.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: No longer loses all of his mana after stealing Dragon's Descent.
R cooldown decreased later.
Hijack
- Cooldown reduced to 100/70/40 seconds from 100/80/60.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: No longer keeps Rappel until he steals her ultimate again if he dies while casting it.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Now permanently gains health and increases in model size from successful kills with a stolen Feast from an enemy Cho'Gath.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Now properly gains bonus attack speed from Petricite Burst when holding Grandmaster's Might.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he would not deal damage to all enemies with a stolen Requiem.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Timer for specific champions will no longer show in spectator mode.
Q damage increased later.
Chain Lash
- Lash base damage increased to 40/60/80/100/120 from 40/55/70/85/100.
Chain Lash
- Bug Fix: Is properly unable to cast Abscond into Chain Lash after casting a stolen ultimate, after losing the ability to do so in 10.1.
Kingslayer
- Bug Fix: Now properly goes on cooldown, deals damage, and heals him if he hits the same target with Abscond.
Less base stats early, more later. Passive now gives attack speed. W cooldown decreased. E AP ratio increased. W, E1, and R basic attack reset removed.
Stats
- Base health reduced to 525 from 585.
- Health growth increased to 115 from 95.
- Base armor reduced to 27 from 32.
- Armor growth increased to 4 from 3.
- Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 39.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 1.75 from 1.25.
Petricite Burst
- Primary target AP ratio increased to 25% AP from 20% AP.
- Effect radius reduced to 300 units from 400.
- New Effect: Now grants 60% bonus attack speed while he has a charge.
- Maximum charges increased to 3 from 2.
- New Effect: Damage to secondary targets now executes minions below 25 health.
Chain Lash
- Cooldown increased to 10/9/8/7/6 seconds from 9/8/7/6/5.
- Lash base damage reduced to 40/55/70/85/100 from 45/70/95/120/145.
- Lash AP ratio reduced to 40% AP from 60% AP.
- Lash slow duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2.
- Detonation base damage increased to 60/105/150/195/240 from 45/70/95/120/145.
- Detonation AP ratio increased to 80% AP from 60% AP.
- Detonation damage reduction against minions and monsters increased to 60% from 45%.
- Removed: The detonation no longer slow for 22.5/30/37.5/45/52.5% for 2 seconds.
Kingslayer
- Removed: No longer resets Sylas' basic attack timer.
- Damage AP ratio increased to 85% AP from 65% AP.
- Base heal reduced to 30/60/90/120/150 from 70/90/110/130/150.
- Cooldown reduced to 14/12.5/11/9.5/8 seconds from 14/13.5/13/12.5/12.
- Removed: Damage is no longer increased by 50% against targets below 40% of their maximum health.
- Removed: Healing is no longer increased by 75% if Sylas is below 40% of his maximum health.
- New Effect: Healing is now increased by 0 to 100% (based on Sylas' missing health).
- Mana cost increased to 70/80/90/100/110 from 40/45/50/55/60.
Abscond
- Removed: No longer resets Sylas' basic attack timer.
- Cooldown reduced to 14/13/12/11/10 seconds from 14 at all ranks.
- Removed: No longer shields for 80/115/150/185/220 (+ 100% AP) against magic damage for 2 seconds upon dashing.
Abduct
- Base damage increased to 80/130/180/230/280 from 70/85/100/115/130.
- AP ratio increased to 100% AP from 20% AP.
- Removed: Can no longer cast Chain Lash while dashing.
- Lock out after dashing reduced to 0.05 seconds from 0.2.
Hijack
- Removed: No longer resets Sylas' basic attack timer.
Base health regen and magic resist increased; health regen growth decreased. W cost decreased.
Stats
- Base health regeneration increased to 9 from 7.
- Health regeneration growth reduced to 0.9 from 1.
- Base magic resistance increased to 39 from 36.1.
Kingslayer
- Mana cost reduced to 40/45/50/55/60 from 50/55/60/65/70.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: When Hijacking Aspect of the Cougar and using her Takedown, he'll now properly do damage with it.
Base armor and armor growth decreased. Passive damage ratio adjusted.
Stats
- Base armor reduced to 28 from 32.
- Armor growth reduced to 2.5 from 3.
Petricite Burst
- Removed: No longer has a base damage of 9 to 60 (based on level).
- Removed: No longer deals 50% reduced damage against minions who aren't his primary target.
- AD ratio increased to 110% AD from 100% AD.
- Non-primary target AD ratio reduced to 40% AD from 100% AD.
Chain Lash
- Bug Fix: Tooltip now displays the correct time of delay before detonation.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: If he dies immediately after casting Grand Starfall via Hijack, he will no longer be locked out of using items and basic abilities.
Chain Lash
- New Effect: The detonation now deals 45% reduced damage to monsters.
Hijack
- Bug Fix: Now properly heals himself when casting a Hijacked Renewal from Karma.
Stats
- Base health regeneration reduced to 7 from 7.5.
Petricite Burst
- Damage to minions who aren't his primary target increased to 50% from 30%.
Chain Lash
- Detonation base damage increased to 45/70/95/120/145 from 40/60/80/100/120.
- Detonation AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 40% AP.
Abscond
- New Effect: Now shields against magic damage for 80/115/150/185/220 (+ 100% AP) for 2 seconds upon dashing.
- Cooldown reduced to 14 seconds at all ranks from 18/17/16/15/14.
- Mana cost changed to 65 at all ranks from 55/60/65/70/75.
Abduct
- Removed: No longer shields for 80/115/150/185/220 (+ 100% AP) for 2 seconds if he hits an enemy champion or monster.
- Knockup duration reduced to 0.35 seconds from 0.5.
Hijack
- Cast range reduced to 950 units from 1050.
- Stolen ultimate duration reduced to 90 seconds from 120.
- Cooldown increased to 100/80/60 seconds from 85/50/15.
- Minimum enemy ultimate cooldown increased to 40 seconds from 20.
- Bonus AD ratio conversion reduced to 0.4% AP per 1% bonus AD from 0.5% AP per 1% bonus AD.
- Total AD ratio conversion reduced to 0.6% AP per 1% total AD from 0.7% AP per 1% total AD.
Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 61 from 58.
- Health growth increased to 95 from 85.
Kingslayer
- Base damage increased to 65/100/135/170/205 from 60/90/120/150/180.
Abscond
- Bug Fix: Tooltip now properly mentions all mana scaling per rank information.
Petricite Burst
- New Effect: Now can store up to 2 charges.
- Base damage increased to 9 to 60 (based on level) from 5 to 47.5 (based on level).
- New Effect: Now deals 30% damage to minions who aren't his primary targets.
Chain Lash
- Detonation base damage reduced to 40/60/80/100/120 from 45/70/95/120/145.
- Detonation AP ratio reduced to 40% AP from 60% AP.
- Detonation radius against minions reduced to 180 units from 200.
Kingslayer
- Base heal strength increased to 70/90/110/130/150 from 60/80/100/120/140.
- Heal AP ratio increased to 50% AP from 40% AP.
Abscond
- Removed: No longer shields for 60/90/120/150/180 (+ 90% AP) for 2 seconds upon dashing.
- Cooldown increased to 18/17/16/15/14 seconds from 18/16/14/12/10.
Abduct
- New Effect: Now shields for 80/115/150/185/220 (+ 100% AP) for 2 seconds if he hits an enemy champion or monster.
Kingslayer
- Base damage increased to 60/90/120/150/180 from 50/75/100/125/150.
Stats
- Base health regeneration reduced to 7.5 from 9.5.
Kingslayer
- Base damage reduced to 50/75/100/125/150 from 60/90/120/150/180.
Abscond
- Cooldown increased 18/16/14/12/10 seconds from 12/11.5/11/10.5/10.
Kingslayer
- Heal AP ratio reduced to 40% AP from 45% AP.
- Bonus healing at low-health reduced to 75% from 100%.
Kingslayer
- Base heal changed to 60/80/100/120/140 from 50/80/110/140/170.
- Heal AP ratio increased to 45% AP from 35% AP.
- Damage AP ratio increased to 65% AP from 55% AP.
Chain Lash
- Detonation radius against champions increased to 180 units from 150.
- New Effect: Now includes an indicator to show the detonation location and radius.
Kingslayer
- Base heal reduced to 50/80/110/140/170 from 50/85/120/155/190.
- New Effect: Icon now glows when he is within the maximum healing threshold.
- New Effect: Kingslayer's damage displays as a cosmetic critical strike if his target was within the bonus damage threshold.
- Undocumented: Now makes allied Prophet of an Elder God slam (those spawned by a hijacked Leap of Faith and those spawned by an allied Illaoi).
Hijack
- Removed: No longer draws turret aggro when stealing an enemy's ultimate.
- Bug Fix: No longer fizzles if he loses sight of his target before the cast finishes.
Sylas added to League of Legends
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Petricite Burst (Innate)
- Innate: After casting a spell, Sylas' next basic attack is modified to whirl his chains around him, dealing 5 to 48 (based on level) (+ 100% AD) (+ 20% AP) magic damage to the target and nearby enemies.
Chain Lash (Q)
- Active: Sylas lashes out with his chains that converge to the target location and extend beyond it up to a maximum range, dealing 45/70/95/120/145 (+ 60% AP) magic damage and slow enemies hit by 15/20/25/30/35% for 2 seconds.
- After a 0.5-seconds delay, the chains' intersection detonates with the same magic damage and slow enemies hit by 50% for 2 seconds. Against minions the detonation deals 45% reduced damage.
- Mana Cost: 50/55/60/65/70.
- Cooldown: 9/8/7/6/5 seconds.
Kingslayer (W)
- Active: Sylas lunges at a target enemy with a powerful strike, dealing 60/90/120/150/180 (+ 55% AP) magic damage, increased by 50% against targets below 40% health.
- Against enemy champions, Sylas heals for 50/85/120/155/190 (+ 35% AP) health, doubled if he's below 40% health.
- Mana Cost: 50/55/60/65/70.
- Cooldown: 14/13.5/13/12.5/12 seconds.
Abscond / Abduct (E)
- First Cast - Abscond: Sylas dashes forward to the target location and shields himself for 60/90/120/150/180 (+ 90% AP) health for 2 seconds.
- For the next X seconds, Sylas may cast Abduct.
- Second Cast - Abduct: Sylas whips out his chains in the target direction, dealing 50/65/80/95/110 (+ 20% AP) magic damage and stun the first enemy hit, pulling himself towards them, and airborne them up for 0.5 seconds upon arrival.
- Mana Cost: 55/60/65/70/75.
- Cooldown: 12/11.5/11/10.5/10 seconds.
Hijack (R)
- Passive: While Hijack is available, Sylas can select a target enemy champion to gain a copy of their ultimate ability at the cost of mana. Sylas cannot select the same champion again for a set duration.
- Active: Sylas casts his hijacked ultimate ability without cost, scaling based on Hijack's rank and his own statistics.
- All Hijacked ultimates and abilities that do not scale with ability power have their attack damage ratios converted to ability power ratios, scaling with 0.7% AP per 1% total AD, and 0.5% AP per 1% bonus AD.
- Mana Cost: 75.
- Cooldown: 85/50/15 seconds.
- On-Target Cooldown: 200% of target's ultimate cooldown, with a minimum of 20 seconds.
