Read the Lux stop, Riot duck riding Sylas so much he's cringe.

HazeVictory·1/11/2020, 5:20:27 PM·5 votes·5,126 views

What is up with this prison dewlling low life walking out and becoming a total Gary Sue?

Guy gets a bunch of capable people to rally on a whim, becomes unstoppable, steals Lux's heart, and makes Demacians (who have been persecuting mages for ages) look like illiterates.

Then the cinematic comes out.

I rolled over in my seat laughing at how hard Riot is trying to make Sylas a perfect villian.

Moreover bringing Galio out looked damn cool but imagine Sylas being a Sion level threat while feasting on Demacian prison rats.

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Chromatic Eagle1/11/2020, 8:08:01 PM5 votes

Guy gets a bunch of capable people to rally on a whim

Imagine you're living in a country where being public of your genetics can get you exiled, arrested, or killed. Some prisoner escapes and tells you to rise up and overthrow the government, or escape, and you have the power to at least try. Wouldn't you join him? Even if you wouldn't, someone will, and that group will grow.

Camille Ferrøs1/11/2020, 8:33:48 PM4 votes

His entire purpose existing in the lore is to be a plot device, so naturally, he will be overpowered and one up every character he interacts with.

Chembaron Yamada1/11/2020, 6:42:16 PM2 votes

Yeah, many people have pointed out that Sylas shouldn't have that physique considering the conditions he was imprisoned with. But what can you do, Riot is on a mission to keep adding "sexy males" to the game, hence why we get champions like Sylas, Aphelios, Sett, and so on in the last time.

But I kinda see a point why they wanted him to be a great threat. Sylas is basically the only villain coming from Demacia to this point. Besides him, in the Demacian champion line up there is not a single criminal or something like this... they are all serving the Demacian crown to some extend and are loyal.

This is something that I also criticized about Piltover in the past. Until now, we don't have any real criminal/villain coming from Piltover, up to the point that the only antagonists for their stories need to get pulled from the Zaunite champions, like Jinx, Urgot, or Viktor (not actually a villain, but demonized from Jayce' point of view to give him an antagonist).

We need variety for the different regions, so I hope we will soon get an evil Piltovan to mix things up a little. You are right that this needs to be handled differently, tho. They shouldn't be just a plot device with seemingly no weaknesses.

Infernape1/11/2020, 5:45:01 PM2 votes

Even then, logically speaking bringing out Galio to try and stop Sylas is literally THE WORST thing Demacia could do.

Galio is made from Petricite. Galio is an anti mage war machine. Petricite absorbs magic. Sylas knows how to release magic from Petricite.

Galio is a goddamn. Walking. Nuke.

GreenLore1/13/2020, 3:38:18 PM2 votes

I feel like its not so much Sylas being a mary sue, but Garen getting worfed for the sake of drama.

I mean Sylas basically defeated Garen without really using magic(at least no visible one, I dunno if iceborn magic also gives you super strength), which is just dumb, but was obviously done to make the moment where Galio comes down more epic.

Besides that Sylas is actually kinda failing at everything. He didn't manage to execute the king or the prince, he gathered a lot of followers only to loose them all when he went to the freljord and now he attacked a demacian outpost in the video and failed to take it, meaning that he sacrificed all of his "demacian" allies for nothing.

mrmeddyman1/12/2020, 8:39:03 PM1 votes

Maybe there is an upper limit to the amount of magic Sylas' body can handle since he isn't built like Galio and if he tries to S U C C the Colossus he'll end up popping like a fleshy balloon.

Arakadia1/13/2020, 8:46:44 AM1 votes

How is he a Gary Sue when he has all sorts of flaws? Like he is literally a terrorist revolutionary with some cool ideas that are being executed rather violently.