Sylas

The Unshackled · Burst, Skirmisher

Summoner's Rift ARAM Arena Nexus Blitz URF One for All Swiftplay Ultimate Spellbook

No Swiftplay-specific changes; plays as on Summoner's Rift.

Abilities

PassivePetricite Burst

After casting a spell, Sylas stores a charge of Petricite Burst. Sylas's basic attacks will expend a charge and whirl his energized chains around him dealing bonus magic damage to enemies hit. While Sylas has a charge of Petricite Burst, he gains attack speed.

QChain Lash10/9/8/7/6s55

Sylas lashes his chains out, intersecting at his targeted location dealing damage to and slowing enemies. After a delay, magical energy explodes from the intersection point dealing damage.

WKingslayer12/10.5/9/7.5/6s50/60/70/80/90

Sylas lunges at an enemy with magical force dealing damage and healing himself against enemy champions.

E

Abscond / Abduct

13/12/11/10/9s

65

Sylas dashes to a location. Sylas can recast the ability to throw his chains out, pulling himself to an enemy he hits.

RHijack80/55/30s75

Sylas steals the enemy's ultimate ability and can cast it freely.

Patch history

26.15 · Jul 29, 2026

Chain Lash
First lash base damage reduced to 40 to 120 from 40 to 140.
First lash AP ratio reduced to 40% AP from 45% AP.

26.12 · Jun 10, 2026

Chain Lash
Initial base damage increased to 40 to 140 from 40 to 120.
Initial AP ratio increased to 45% AP from 40% AP.
Kingslayer
Minimum heal AP ratio increased to 30% AP from 20% AP.

26.11 · May 28, 2026

Hijack
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he respawns as Shyvana in Dragon's Descent when dying while polymorphed.

26.10 · May 13, 2026

Hijack
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where stolen Frozen Tomb had a chance to fizzle if he cast it in conjunction with a movement spell.
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he may have less Fury than expected after casting Dragon's Descent.

25.24 · Dec 3, 2025

Petricite Burst
Monster damage reduced to 115% from 130%.

35 older patches

25.20 · Oct 8, 2025

Hijack
Bug Fix: No longer incorrectly gains Death Surge instead of Unstoppable Onslaught if cast on Sion during his Glory in Death zombie state.

25.19 · Sep 24, 2025

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 Sylas
Added Faker's signature to the border set in the Loading Screen.

25.18 · Sep 10, 2025

Petricite Burst

Base stats

Health600 +122/lvl
Mana400 +70/lvl
Attack Damage61 +3/lvl
Attack Speed0.645 +3.5/lvl
Armor29 +5.2/lvl
Magic Resist32 +2.55/lvl
Base Health Regen9 +0.9/lvl
Base Mana Regen8 +0.8/lvl
Move Speed340
Range175

Melee · Resource: Mana

Monster damage reduced to 130% from 150%.

25.16 · Aug 13, 2025

Petricite Burst
Bug Fix: Critical strikes no longer factor the spell's damage again after the attack's base damage, causing them to deal much more damage than intended.
Petricite Burst
Monster damage increased to 150% from 100%.

25.13 · Jun 25, 2025

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.

25.12 · Jun 11, 2025

Abduct
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that caused it to apply Kingslayer damage and heal multiple times.

25.10 · May 14, 2025

Hijack
Bug Fix: Now properly converts copied Ragnarok AD ratios into AP ratios.

25.7

Hijack
Bug Fix: Now correctly incurs its slot cooldown upon copying Lightning Crash.

14.22

Stats
Health growth reduced to 122 from 129.

14.17

Kingslayer
Damage AP ratio reduced to 60% AP from 70% AP.

14.16

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 to 215 from 65 to 205.
Hijack
Bug Fix: Now properly keeps the passive effects of Grandmaster-at-Arms and Highlander for the duration of the active spells.

14.15

Stats
Base armor increased to 29 from 27.
Chain Lash
Explosion base damage reduced to 60 to 280 from 70 to 290.
Explosion AP ratio reduced to 80% AP from 90% AP.
Cooldown reduced to 10 to 6 seconds from 11 to 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.

14.10

Hijack
Bug Fix: No longer keeps stolen abilities if their hold timer ends during the windup or cast of Empowered Recall.

14.9

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.

14.8

Chain Lash
Monster detonation damage increased to 100% from 70%.
Minion damage unchanged.

14.7

Chain Lash
Monster detonation damage increased to 70% from 40%.
Monster base detonation damage increased to 49 to 203 from 28 to 116.
Monster detonation AP ratio increased to 63% AP from 36% AP.
Minion damage unchanged.

14.5

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.

14.1

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.

13.24

Kingslayer
Base damage reduced to 65 to 205 from 70 to 210.
Damage AP ratio reduced to 80% AP from 90% AP.
Minimum heal AP ratio reduced to 35% AP from 40% AP.
Ashen Slayer Sylas, Battle Wolf Sylas, Prestige PROJECT Sylas, PROJECT Sylas
Hijack
Bug Fix: Clone model from Hallucinate no longer has corrupted textures if the enemy Shaco was using the following skins: Prestige Soul Fighter Shaco, Soul Fighter Shaco, Winterblessed Shaco, Crime City Nightmare Shaco and Arcanist Shaco.

13.22

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.

13.16

Stats
Base mana increased to 400 from 310.

13.14

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).

13.11

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 Sylas skin with specific ultimates.

13.10

Hijack
Bug Fix: Can now properly cast Inferno Trigger without any stacks of her Daredevil Impulse.

13.4

General
Bug Fix: Particle types are now properly aligned with Battle Wolf Sylas' body parts.

12.23

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.

12.22

Hijack
Bug Fix: Now always steals the active effect of All Out and not the recast if the target had All Out active.

12.17

Stats
Base health reduced to 575 from 595.
Chain Lash
Cooldown increased to 11 to 7 seconds from 10 to 6.

12.16

Hijack
Bug Fix: VFX bug when stealing an enemy Chronobreak with the Star Guardian Ekko or Prestige Star Guardian Ekko skin has been fixed.

12.14

General
Bug Fix: Knocked up/stunned animation is now correctly played.

12.12

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.

12.11

Kingslayer
Mana cost reduced to 50 to 90 from 60 to 100.
Minimum heal AP ratio increased to 40% AP from 35% AP.
Cooldown reduced to 12 to 6 seconds from 13 to 7.
Abscond
Cooldown reduced to 13 to 9 seconds from 14 to 10.
Hijack
Bug Fix: A hijacked Grand Challenge now properly has its heal scale with AP.

12.10

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 to 100 from 25 to 125.
Minimum heal AP ratio reduced to 35% AP from 40% AP.

12.8

Hijack
Cooldown reduced to 80 to 30 seconds from 100 to 40.

12.7

Hijack
Bug Fix: Now properly reverts back to Hijack even after the caster dies with Shadow Surge recast being active.