The ONE easy to fix problem with Sylas

Düff McWhalen··3 votes·1,286 views

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W: KINGSLAYER Sylas lunges at a target with a powerful strike, damaging them and healing himself. If the enemy is at low health, the damage is increased; if Sylas is at low health, the heal is increased.


It's frankly over tuned as is, and needs to be nerfed next patch. He has 2 dashes and can steal the most influential parts of his enemies' kits. Now this doesn't have to be a balancing nightmare, and he weak early, absolutely. However this one ability is simply healing him for too much and it makes counter playing him impossible in a 1v1 situation when he has another health bar ready go and you're almost dead by the time it refills. If you're a burst assassin, he can heal between your CD's, if you're a sustain champ, he's sticking to you and hitting you back, baiting you into his heal, if you're a bruiser/tank, no chance.

In closing, this ability should be a clutch save mechanic, not an extra life. I understand that things such as Tryndameres and Kayle's ults are a thing, but consider that those abilities last a couple seconds, and can be played around in a 1v1 situation.

In the case of Sylas, he has double the mobility to stick to his targets, and taking down hp from 100 to 0 is not the same as baiting a cheese mechanic like Tryndamere/Kayle. Consider as well that Sylas may steal abilities like said champions given the chance, making him have an extra life beyond even what GA and Hourglass can provide.

Edit: My nightmare...

Sylas + item 3026 item 3157 Tryndamere Kayle Aatrox ults

4 Comments

Illabethe3 votes

No. It doesn't need nerfed. It's part of his balancing mechanic, the same as Pyke's life regen is part of his, and Neeko's windup on her ult, etc.

Sylas as a melee REALLY takes a lot of damage over the course of a game. His entire game is fought at melee range. He needs that heal to even be relevant.

Düff McWhalen1 votes

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No. It doesn't need nerfed. It's part of his balancing mechanic, the same as Pyke's life regen is part of his, and Neeko's windup on her ult, etc.

Sylas as a melee REALLY takes a lot of damage over the course of a game. His entire game is fought at melee range. He needs that heal to even be relevant.

Totally agree, but him getting a full health bar out of it is way too much. If he got say half an hp bar, that's a little weak. a happy medium here would be something like 65% to 75% of what it currently is.

Illabethe2 votes

You haven't even tried him, have you?

I take 200k damage in a 40 minute game. Good luck doing your job without that heal that you get to use ONCE per fight.

P.S. Warwick, Mundo BOTH have much stronger heals.

CrazyMonkeyCZ1 votes

He is ok at best, terrible win rate, but it is normal after release. He need to be in melee range as squishy mage and sorry but only shield isn't enough. There are for sure other champs that need to be looked at.

E. G. Karthus Lissandra Vayne KennenCamille and more.

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