Why is Sylas so buff looking?

Bottleneck Jim·Sep 11, 2019·9 votes·8,329 views

Are Demacians so "pure" that they won't even lower the rations of a prisoner? This guy looks like he gets 200 Grams of Protein a day, at least! If they really wanted to keep him imprisoned, he would be skinny to the point that they would have to update the chains to fit his skinny malnourished limbs. As far as I have seen, this is guy is chained to the floor for however long, and yet he looks as if he goes to the gym all day every day. Does his magical power also include immunity to atrophy, and a constant, but steady increase to strength? I get it that he might just be flexing within his restraints to gain something, but that brings me back to, "just feed him less" and he won't be able to get swole anymore. This guy is basically a terrorist to them and they don't even notice that he retains his health to the utmost.

23 Comments

Jimmy RustlesSep 11, 20196 votes

His meals are just steroids and protein powder

JaspersSep 11, 20193 votes

Hey now, they came with a side of rats.

Radiant WukongSep 12, 20195 votes

Have you ever actually seen a prison population? Everybody in the pen is swole. Ain't shit to do in their but workout and eat. Pushups, situps, weight, running and basketball.

Survival of the fittest, if you ain't fit, you better not own anything of interest, be pretty or have a frowned upon conviction.

Everybody knows Sylas is with the shit, his appearance matches his mentality.

Bottleneck JimSep 13, 20191 votes

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Have you ever actually seen a prison population? Everybody in the pen is swole. Ain't shit to do in their but workout and eat. Pushups, situps, weight, running and basketball.

Survival of the fittest, if you ain't fit, you better not own anything of interest, be pretty or have a frowned upon conviction.

Everybody knows Sylas is with the shit, his appearance matches his mentality.

Prison populations aren't chained to the floor, and our money-grab system is a terrible example to use for any argument like this. Guantanamo Bay would beg to differ with your point.

GooliopeSep 11, 20193 votes

Sylas has been following Iroh's prison workout routine from avatar the last airbender

SchenixSep 11, 20192 votes

The man couldn't use the chains as a weapon if he didn't have muscles.

Even if he was only average inside the prison, he could have packed on muscle relatively quick, especially considering his ability is copying, and the chains grant him absorption on top of it.

Alternatively, he could have copied an ability that granted him a racial ability benefit some time ago and just remains so small of a budget (since you wouldn't need much mana/energy to facilitate already natural processes) that it remains functioning even within the chains.

InfernapeSep 11, 20192 votes

The same way Kai'Sa looks like a supermodel. It sells. Screw logic.

ArakadiaSep 12, 20192 votes

Well it actually plays a role in his design though. Him being muscular makes him read more as a bruiser rather than a squishy in game, but it also makes him look more like a buff prisoner. Big shirtless ripped prisoner has a lot more of a power fantasy than realistic scrawny prisoner. Making him scrawny might also make him read more like a thief or drug addict than a dangerous terrorist. And honestly if you made him very scrawny his gauntlets and collar would have to be smaller which would hurt his design more as they are major elements that need to be big.

Most importantly though he needs to be physically charismatic to really sell his charismatic revolutionary fantasy.

Jhins GirlfriendSep 12, 20192 votes

Same way Kai'sa got a full face of makeup, an hourglass figure, and perfectly maintained hair despite eating bugs and dirt in the void for years. Magic!

Secretly a PhosSep 12, 20191 votes

Like actually though, Sylas at least gets consistent food(plus considering that Lux brings him things that probably makes up for most of the malnutrition). Kai'Sa had what was probably a years of malnutrition as a child and even after that the suit still consumes a significant portion of any food she manages to get, plus the fact that her diet is horribly unbalanced(thus her peach obsession).

KFCeytronSep 12, 20192 votes

The official reason from Riot:

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Gotta get more Husbandos into this game, LoL could definitely use some more :)

ArakadiaSep 13, 20191 votes

This was a joke because while it's one reason it's not the main reason.

StormBladeMasterSep 11, 20191 votes

In the normal story, Sylas escaped and probably ate more and recovered since he is out of prison now but yeah, in the comic it's weird because yeah he is muscular.

I think it's made for cosmetic purposes, like for selling skins or something like that since Sylas have nice abds to show...

But Demacian champs look ugly for the most. Garen look horrible in the comic, his face is not really beautiful... Jarvan is even worse. When you compare the splash and the comic and the new story about him and Xin zhao, he looks like 40 years old. Xin zhao is asian and asian are beautiful so he is good. He has a good face.

Sylas look not so bad actually. Even tought he is supposed to be older than Jarvan and Garen, he looks like younger than them. His face is normal actually.

But the comics make Jarvan and Garen faces ugly, they look like 40 years old and so different from their splash art.

PS : By the way Sylas ate a lot of rats in prison which is meat after all. That would explain why he is still muscular.

Bottleneck JimSep 11, 20191 votes

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In the normal story, Sylas escaped and probably ate more and recovered since he is out of prison now but yeah, in the comic it's weird because yeah he is muscular.

I think it's made for cosmetic purposes, like for selling skins or something like that since Sylas have nice abds to show...

But Demacian champs look ugly for the most. Garen look horrible in the comic, his face is not really beautiful... Jarvan is even worse. When you compare the splash and the comic and the new story about him and Xin zhao, he looks like 40 years old. Xin zhao is asian and asian are beautiful so he is good. He has a good face.

Sylas look not so bad actually. Even tought he is supposed to be older than Jarvan and Garen, he looks like younger than them. His face is normal actually.

But the comics make Jarvan and Garen faces ugly, they look like 40 years old and so different from their splash art.

PS : By the way Sylas ate a lot of rats in prison which is meat after all. That would explain why he is still muscular.

The rats make a bit of sense. Although, as a guard or maybe the commander, I'm pretty sure someone would have the idea to restrict his diet a bit more in order to prevent any kind of resistance he might offer, even if its just physical strength. Also, the rat corpses that litter the floors would also be a bit of an indicator. If he was a Noxian prisoner, he would be skin and bones or dead. Everyone in this game is ridiculously proportioned, and it makes sense for sales or character appeal. In terms of making the character believable, they really screwed the pooch on that one. It just doesn't make any sense that a maximum security, always tied down, prisoner should appear to have that much physical strength. I guess the moral of the story is that if you're going to be a criminal, you should do it in Demacia- Land of Justice and Stupidity. Sylas probably has amazing health and dental coverage as well as a 401K through the Demacian prison system.

StormBladeMasterSep 11, 20195 votes

Yeah it's mostly character appeal... It's wouldn't be great to see Sylas being skinny.

Oh by the way i forgot but Lux probably gave him food since she came to saw him multiple times.

Midg3tSep 11, 20191 votes

Are you literally questioning the logic of a fantasy world?

KennekySep 11, 20192 votes

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Are you literally questioning the logic of a fantasy world?

Something must make some kind of sence, even in a fantasy world. As to that in particular, Isn't he an mortal human?

KoiyakiSep 11, 20191 votes

I mean rats and also ya boi has stining chains on his hands. Heavy lookin chains mind u. He also looks like he skipped thr heck outta leg day.

So having to drag around probably 100+ lbs chains every day and eating dem rats woukd nake anyone a little topheavy tbh

Troll SlaiyerSep 11, 20191 votes

because hes busted

Madjack01Sep 11, 20191 votes

It looks good which is all the reason they fucking need.

Guess what, every damn thing you see in games and movies (even the supposedly realistic things) get beautified because that's what people like.

ArakadiaSep 12, 20191 votes

Not everything needs to be pretty though. Sure people like beautified shit but it looks terrible when its used inappropriately (Kai'sa).

ArakadiaSep 12, 20191 votes

A few reasons. Him being muscular makes him read more as a bruiser rather than a squishy in game, but it also makes him look more like a buff prisoner. Big shirtless ripped prisoner has a lot more of a power fantasy than realistic scrawny prisoner. Making him scrawny might also make him read more like a thief or drug addict than a dangerous terrorist. And honestly if you made him very scrawny his gauntlets and collar would have to be smaller which would hurt his design more as they are major elements that need to be big.

Most importantly though he needs to be physically charismatic to really sell his charismatic revolutionary fantasy.