Sylas Feels Awful to Play

Caretaker Jack·11/10/2019, 7:03:15 PM·6 votes·3,451 views

His burst hardly hurts and you cant rinse and repeat any of his kit because he dies after the first trade... How do you play this champ? He has AD ratios on his passive. Why is that a thing if he has other AD ratios?

His AP ratios are nerfed against jungle creeps and minions. So he cant have clear pressure or kill anything? What are you doing, riot? Are you saying he's supposed to be a tank? What are we doing with his health regen? Why is his heal hardly noticeable? Can someone explain how to play Sylas?

He has no kill pressure in lane, No wave-clear, he's immobile, and happens to be squishy... And yes, I mean immobile. He's no different from Lucian.

It seems riot nerfed his ability to jungle and his support ability depends entirely on one skill, so may as well play brand. How does the champ work? Is he even playable? Where does he go? Is he an assassin like lb?

23 Comments

CaptainAntiHeroz11/10/2019, 7:08:08 PM4 votes

feels like a drain bruiser....

D357R0Y3R11/10/2019, 8:18:39 PM4 votes

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he's immobile, and happens to be squishy... And yes, I mean immobile.

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He's no different from Lucian.

? idk how to feel about this thread

StormBladeMaster11/10/2019, 8:08:11 PM2 votes

The problem is his ultimate being so unreliable. You can't pick Sylas unless you know what the enemy team pick because you are 100% depending on your enemies ultimates.

Yeah he is squishy and the fact that his shield is only AP now don't help.

He lack of dmg, except when he is feed.

His concept is a fail because he was supposed to be an AP bruiser but since there are no AP bruiser items, he is builded like a mage or a Leblanc. So he is like an assassin but an unreliable assassin.

He has very long basic CD. 18s on E, 14 on W and level up don't help him to reduce these CD. When you have Ryze who is an abomination spamming spells every seconds and being tanky, why you would pick Sylas who is melee and unreliable ?

He should have less CD, more substain and defensive stats but less dmg and he would be a bruiser.

ThisName1sDumb11/10/2019, 10:44:09 PM1 votes

If you don't like playing him... don't play him?

Daddy Ants11/12/2019, 11:36:31 AM1 votes

He's awful to play against as well.