Why EVERYONE Plays: Sylas | League Of Legends
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- Sylas is one of the rare few champions in League who has been popular since the day he came out and has remained popular ever since. Today we're gonna be discussing how that's the case in Why EVERYONE Plays: Sylas
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"Balanced with the assumption of he won't have an ultimate"
Rammus against a team with no auto attackers: "Ok"
I'll make them auto me, no matter what
I mean...
Ok
Adc is enough to entertain him
@@XuanBachTrinh-of3pb what if enemy team has apc?
@@dreamergamer9291 idk, play ap Rammus and go cowabunga or smthng?
To be fair, there are 3 roles that more often than not have auto attackers with few exceptions(adc has one 90% of the time, jungle has one probably 70%, and top has one ~80%), so the chance of having a lack of auto attackers is reasonably lower than the chance of a game with bad ultimates.
My biggest problem with sylas has always been how much damage he can put out at ALL stages of the game. Hes always strong.
Also he has a high playrate because of his ult
My biggest problem have always been the amount of healing he can do. Even without spirit visage he can heal a large amount of health in a very short time. I havent played much since the changes to healing so idk how strong his healing is currently but Im assuming its still pretty strong.
Sylas is not that strong 1v1 at the early game if both go full out. Also sylas peaks at mid game, still strong at late game though
Not true. Early game you have to punish him. He literally cannot wave clear without using abilities but that uses so much mana then you can’t 1v1. But if you play it well you can hyper carry
"Oh geez, Sylas could potentially not have a good ult, we'd better give him crazy buff stats so he's always useful regardless of the enemy team composition. It'd be bad design to have champions relegated almost entirely to the role of a counterpick!" Said riot, ignoring roughly 1/4 of their cast who only see play as counterpicks.
Pretty sure the intention was for him to be a situational counterpick like Rubick in DotA 2 is. Then they made him too fun and people who want to play him every game demanded he be more consistent
More like "oh geez Sylas could potentially not wreck everyone, let's make him super consistency by overbuffing him even in a disadvantage state" also riot "a marksmen could maybe right click on a fighter before they get reached by one of the million dashes we give fighter, they better die in one, two hits tops."
I would say more, there are classes like artillery mages that are doomed to be bad.
@@onlymyself1234 well rubick also fun the difference is sylas will always get ult while rubick get any spell as long that was the last thing they cast, that the main difference, if sylas have literally a spell steal as ultimate people will detour from him because it's just inconsistent ult for League environment where most of the basic kit need to work in tandems with the rest of the kit and ultimate as finishing blow or starter of a chain.
Let's also not forget that depending on enemy team comp the usage he gets out of said ult is so astronomically that he basically becomes unbeatable because a certain Champ simply exists.
Having a cho in your Team and a sylas in the enemy team basically means you're screwed if the sylas exploits it
i dont even think hes got a bad design, except for the fact that his copied ults most often are better than on the champion je stole them for. The problem i see on him is just HOW INCREDEBLY overtuned he is, most champs get either insane base dmg or sclaing, he gets both, on every ability
Yeah diana has 164 base damage assuming passive and all abilities hit at lvl 3, sylas has 260 on all abilities hitting if the passive gives an additional 21 damage to aa at lvl 3 whitout extra ad or ap that would be 342 damage whitout the dmg from the aa
@@nechocat1234 and the passive increses auto speed
It's funny to see how Faker's Sylas just beat Jensen's Akali almost just by AAing her with his passive while being behind and not having ult
The face that AD Sylas is somewhat viable shows how ridiculous the champion is. Akali has a small amount of AD scaling in her kit yet she couldn't be viable if she builds AD, against Sylas with his Passive the only thing that has AD scaling.
@@duytran9086 did you forget how strong AD Akali has been in the past
Honorable mention to his lore. To this day, Sylas's introduction and storyline is one of the most impactful additions to the game that got everyone talking. People sympathize with him and want to kick some noble ass as they hear motivational justice speeches.
Not as relevant as the actual gameplay of course, but a revolutionary taking power of oppressors for himself by weaponizing the chains used to shackle him is the best power fantasy in the whole game
That was what drew me to play Sylas. Not his ultimate stealing mechanic, his 2 dashes, or his furry skin, it's his lore, his character in the story.
eh, there is a bit of a hot button issue there. i like his story, but i also see him as a villain. the problem is that people see "oppressed revolutionary" and instantly think "hero", even if his methods only make things worse for everyone (when people oppress your kind because they think you are dangerous, a violent rebellion is the last thing you want). i see the power fantasy, but i also think people should be careful with how much they glorify him
@@Underworlder5 oh do tell. How should he stop the genocide of mages without dismantling the system that is currently GENOCIDING
@@Underworlder5I deliberately ignore that aspect of his lore because it's honestly terrible writing. Casting the guy trying to keep his people from being murdered or enslaved as evil is one of the dumbest decisions Riot has ever made, all in the service of making it so that their precious uwu bean Demacia doesn't come across as evil.
Tbh his story is half the reason I play him
Also, the combination of Sylas being a melee champ, which means he gets higher base stats, and his insane scalings enabling him to build lower ap items for the same damage, means Sylas can consistently outtank every other burst mage while still dishing out the same or more damage than his counterparts. All of this, on his base kit alone, not even counting whatever ult he may get.
About the AP ratios on ultimates: Baron buff gives AP, even if you never built any. So those champions’ ults are meant to be empowered by baron buff. The reason the ratio is so high is because otherwise it wouldn’t be noticeable unless the AP given by baton buff was so much as to make it broken on a mage champion.
I remember when the devs were all like:
"While we were designing Sylas, we knew what we were aiming for, and at the end of the day, if we had a scenario, where we would say: Oh we cannot put that ultimate on a champion, cuz remember Sylas! We failed in designing him."
Crazy how things turned out, ain't it? Good times.
So basically, his basic kit is one of the most powerful and he potentially has the best ultimate, but he's "balanced" around not having one.
Yeah, I can see why everyone plays the guy.
My biggest problem with him is that EVERY ultimate he steals will scale well with AP for him. If he steals Jinx's ult, it scales of AP for him. If Malphite is going tank, he sacrifices the damage on his ult - while Sylas will still have the knock up AND the damage. I'd really like to see how it would work if he stole the ultimate WITH the current stats the original owner has. That way he won't be able to use it better in terms of AP ratios.
Sylas is "I'm you but better" the champ. Some ults in the game are absurd but their power is mitigated by having poor ratios or scaling or being on champs who otherwise discourage having damage stats. Sylas just says "lol. lmao." To that and does several champions jobs better than they do because of how Hijack and his kit work.
W is just one of the most unfun abilities in the game
I kind of agree. Sylas W is just magic Irelia Q with no reset and while on its own I don’t think it’s that bad, the fact he has a dash stun knockup and the W targeted dash that also heals makes it feel like you have very little input in a trade / all-in. At least it’s just unfun and not like wind wall… *sobs in Zoe main*
@@UserLeoh I really hate the w into e2 combo I get that using w early is not as good but guaranteed e2 is not fun at all if you fighting sylas as a squishy as w and e2 one shots u
@@nishu4406 while being even more durable than most mages (even tankier ones like galio)
@@nu_kercat1 primarily from his healing. I don’t even understand why riot likes to make champs that get out traded hard but still restore half their health bars when you all - in them
10:28 don't you love the counterplay of him missing everything he could miss and still running you down
as much as i like Vars video he seems very biased in favor of that champion,no one should be able to brainlessy run you down by missing their main spells while also having the potential to win teamfights for free with other's ultimates and pretty much filling the role of 5+ classes in one champion
Id sincerely rather have sylas as a counter-pick with high base numbers and low ap ratios then how he is now.
Are you
Have fun playing against full-tank sylas that can still outdamage you then
that’s… that’s tank sylas…
People keep forgetting the abominations like tank Fizz, tank Ekko or tank Diana.
Tank Diana is still around, ain't she? And tank Ekko is still annoying af.
A funny thing on Sylas is how he can literally become a half of the transforming ult champs. for nidlee you can transform into her cat form forever and your passive still procs.
Another funny thing I like is if Sylas gets Cho’gath ult and uses it a couple times he visually gets bigger too
it doesnt matter what he is or what not and why
an assassin/bruiser
should not have such high base dmage AND such high scaling
sure, some games you can have no ults or bad ults but honestly.. how often!?? there are only so many champs in the game, in a game least 2 and 3 ults you can use in a game on average.
it is the common issue for modern assassins anyways, assassin level of base damage, mage level of scaling if not mroe, and control mage/tank levels of engage and teamfight cc.
lets not forget this monster has a shield on release as well, yes on top of that 80% ap ratio heal.
i hate how there are so many no skill champs who are way too good
Why don’t you play them and get the freelo since they’re no skill and way too good
@@gengar618 because they probably dont have fun playing them
Sylas is no skill? Bruh come on
@@Ratty524 he may not be ‘low skill’ but his skill floor is pretty damn high. He’s easy to pick up and quickly gain an understanding on.
@@dracotoy thats true, i enjoy playing more complicated champs
As a wise man once said "He's melee"
"He needs those stats"
"We can't nerf him"
with 3 dashes
good words of my boy, tobias fate, raging against such monstrosity that is sylas.
"he's gonna suck sejuanis boar off, hes into boars now, we can't nerf him"
His number are insane and he isnt even punished for stealing ad ults. Plus not one is gonna see a sylas and think "lets pick bad ults for sylas to steal" its not feasible
What annoys me the most is that some ults like gnars ult are balanced around the fact that to get a good ult you need to position well and items so that you survive long enough and then you get to cc and deal decent damage but sylas just gets to have a better engage more damage by far and way more consistency
If he steals ad ult, it will scale from ap for sylas
uhhhhhh remember on release when his w did bonus damage against lower hp targets and his e had a shield LUL
Interestingly, Riot had to redesign their entire champion ability kit implementation to enable Hijack's existence. Sylas is probably the lone champion that required the most coding effort to bring to the game, as a result
Veigo moment
Bruh viego literally shut down the entire game for a day
How much do you wanna bet these two champs , viego and sylas, we’re designed after someone said “ let’s make a champion that steals X’. The worst way to design champions is to design them as playable characters in the game climate. A champ has to be designed with lore, appearance and tribe in mind AT THE FOREMOST. Example: the Void spawns all kinds of freaks - let’s make up the some rhino bug looking creature and based on its design, we’ll conjure up its kit. We know what it is, we know where it comes from, now we can make it fit in the game knowing it’s lore is pitch perfect
@@Yenaldooshi138 you're talking above the heads of those listening
@@Yenaldooshi138 If only they did that for Bel'Veth. "Lets make a void manta ray but instead of her having cool abilities she just dashes and auto attacks really really fast."
Honestly you could give her Aurelion Sol's current kit, recolor it to purple and it would make more sense than what she has now.
Cuz he's a slayer.
No matter if he's behind, once he gets his items he then can proceed to miss half of his abilities and still manage to one-shot you.
Peak Rito balance.
I'm going to comment this before watching the video but I'm going to assume everyone plays him because he's a broken monkey brain champion who will never get any meaningful nerfs because he's popular and recently got a game where he's the main protagonist. He is one of the biggest fun killers in ARAM because once he gets even a bit of gold he's basically unstoppable if the person playing him has half a braincell.
You know the "nerf" that Jinx got because of her popularity last patch where she got a slap on the wrist at worst? Yeah those are the kind of nerfs that Sylas will get and if his win rate somehow drops below 49% you can bet your ass they'll give him "just a little bump up" because he'll totally be unplayable without it.
"wow! he deals half of my hp with a support item" -Tobias fate
6:27 reminds me of the why everyone plays Pyrah/Mythrah. At base they're 90% of a champ and the extra stuff boosts them to like 150%
is that ..dota?
@@karasutsuki1733 no its smash bros on vars 2nd channel
Imagine you could play Rubick but guarantee stealing ults... the perfect counter-pick.
"hEs MeLEe"
Meanwhile kassadin not existing until level +10 because he has no sustain aside mana and at best has one mana item with no regeneration.
Also love mentioning how having a kassadin ult is "useless" as if being able to teleport across walls or teleport into a chain cast into an everfrost isn't ass cancer while being tankier than a bruiser.
Like cmmon man, 420% AP on one rotation without an ult while stacking conq on top of it.
Kassadin's ult is tecnically useless for Sylas, since Sylas doesn't exactly have issues closing gaps in first place, and since he can only cast it once, he can't even use it for that juicy oneshot potential at 4+stacks.
Sure it has *some uses*, same way turning into Nidalee's cougar form to jump over a wall has, but it's pretty down in the list of "good ultis" :P
With kass ult sylas has
at least 2 pseudo flashes before the cost being too much for him, 1 aimed dash, 1 point and click gap closer, 1 aimed dash that doubles as a snare.
How is that "useless" you do understand that mobility is the ultimate statcheck right?
It's not "useless", it's just one of the least useful abilities he can get. Sylas would very much take one of the big damage or high CC abilities than a short distance blink, expecially as Sylas already has 2 built-in gapclosers.
We're not talking of Darius or Garen who would kill for a blink, Sylas rarely struggles to get in melee range. The extra blink is just a "win more" button.
Sure it's not "completely useless", but it's down in the bottom 10 ultis you'd want to steal.
@@jeromepickles2498 Sylas cant cast Kassadin ultimate more than once, he loses the ultimate after the first cast.
You know. Id love to have a third version of these videos. we have:
Why Everyone Plays.
Why No One Plays.
Id love to see a "Why theres an average amount of people that play this champion" or something. just to cover that middle ground of champs. Not sure how well it would perform, But id love to see it regardless. could highlight why some champs arent as popular as you might think. or why other champions might appear like hot garbage, but still get picked pretty often
Probably one thing that people forget to mention is that he's just super fast with his combos, and fast champions are lots of fun
I think a big contributer is that he is never the same. The games and teamfights will always play out difgerently. Alot of times, especially with more simple champs, when you keep playing the same champ it can get boting because it feels like youre doingvthe same thing over and over.
It's kinda hard to balance sylas, his base kit has to be strong so that if the enemy team has shit ults that he's not useless but when he picks up an ult that's good on him he's suddenly really strong
It shouldn't be like that, not every champ needs to be safe to blind pick and sylas shouldn't be that strong at base, yeah maybe stronger than the common champ but he more than doubles the base dmg of diana and scales better
He should have counterplay like every champion. He shouldn't be just as strong in every match up
That's like saying Rammus should be balanced so he's not completely useless when facing a full AP team.
@@Cardboard_Cut also considering the ratio of champs whitout ult or ults useless to sylas is something like less than 5% of the game he really doesn't need to be balanced around it
No it doesn't have to be strong. My champion is always shit, why doesn't Sylas get to be weak sometimes?
You mention that most ultimates scale of ap thats why he can use them better than owners, but sylas makes all ultimates he takes scale with ap, even if it scales with ad normally.
as a sylas main
yeah a big part of why i mained him was he wasnt too hard to pick up but i instantly had fun with his kit took me 10 games to not troll with him (meaning 10 games for his kit to click with me)
and now i have 150k+ mastery on him and im still far from fully mastering him he has a LOT of options like do you e w e or do you keep your w and use it later (the less health you have the more you heal) if you are sure you can use it 2 times then w as soon as you can if your not sure then save it up for last its a beautiful dance with death when
his ultimate works so well with his kit most of the time 50% of the ultimates feels natural on him and only 10% feels bad on him
also another big part of why i mained him is his amazing lore he checks everything
easy to learn hard to master ✅
fun gameplay ✅
replayability (meaning to play him over and over and not get bored) ✅
good lore ✅
is strong almost always ✅
is balanced (currently he is the most balanced state he ever is in so yeah he is ✅)
Left out the part where any ult he takes is literally ALWAYS better than the champ he takes it from in terms of base value because of how he gains their bases scaling PLUS his own additional scaling. If they remove the additional scaling so that ults arent always better on him than the champ theyre designed for then MAYBE you could justify how strong his base kit is, but right now there is no reason for his stats to be that over tuned. If the argument is that a champ needs to be over tuned to be viable, then they need to change the way the champ functions, because thats essentially saying "we are willing to sacrifice the health of the game for 1/10 players' experience".
I could be interpreting your comment wrong, but in the case I'm not, Sylas does not get additional scaling on Ultimates. If it doesn't have an AP ratio, he gets the AD one converted partially into AP (.6% AP per 1% total AD and .4% AP per 1% Bonus AD I think), and if there is an AP ratio, there is no conversion. I do agree that the champ is broken on a fundamental level, though. If I worked at riot's balance team, and were asked to fix Sylas, I would probably just bite the bullet and straight up directly change ratios on each ult when it's on him. For me, the most fun parts about him, and the parts I would want to preserve, are his chains as weapons, and using the enemies' weapons against them. I also had an idea one time of making him an mr shred bruiser, dialing back his ratios in favor of him being a tankshredder and really fulfilling the name "kingslayer", but I haven't put much thought into it.
@@thegloriousryan8981 thats a pretty good concept ngl
Currently writing a report and I can see how much work you put into writing the script for this video. Awesome stuff
Could be because he is not played in low ranks, but it has been genuinely about a month since I last saw Sylas in any of my games.
Honorable mention swain ultimate, gl killing sylas with it
For me he feels like a assasin with training wheels and perfect for those who want to play assasin every now and then (like me).
Strong lane.
Sustain
Easy to learn move set and combos.
And usefull even if he falls behind in early game
I just loved his lore, and gameplay was incredible fun too, suddenly i just had a ton of mastery points, goated champion
My biggest problem with Sylas is that he always seems to feed HIMSELF. As in, it doesn't matter how well his enemy plays. He'll find a way to get fed early game and just snowball. Never seen a Sylas player do badly.
Hey Vars, can you do a "why no one plays Qiyana"? I feel like no one plays her, like one in every like 50 games (except for me ofc). I feel like she is underrated and few people pick her up. Even though the feeling of hitting a 4/5 man ultimate is incredible.
no one plays her because riot fuucking gutted her to being an r spam bot. I have 2 years of qiqi and hundreds of games and now its just pathetic how weak she is for how hard she is
simple, skill floor is pretty high, falling behind as an assasin its one of the worst feeling in the game, and you gotta put A LOT of games on the champion to bring it to the point where you feel rewarded for your efforts.
She’s a bit more prominent in high elo than below. It kind of boils down to the fact that there are champs within her class who can perform just as effectively with none of the insane skill floor that she requires.
Among the other things already mentioned, her character isn't all that appealing to a lot of people. I haven't met a single person who didn't despise her personality, even among people who do play her.
Turns out, when you intentionally make a champ obnoxious and do a good job of it, people get annoyed by them.
She's played in high elo, the problem is that she got nerfed many times before while her counterparts are on the rise. Also item balancing doesnt benefit her at the moment so she doesnt oneshot you as she used before, now she needs to be played properly or be pretty ahead and if thats not the case she gets outscaled by many champions even if they play bad.
Basically, her complexity and her decaying on mid to late game in comparison to other champions is her main problem. Played in a "fighting lane" with and active jungler she still seems to be really strong and able to stomp and carry short games
There's no reason for why his ratios should be that high. If the enemy team has shit ultimate, that's your mistake for picking him in the wrong scenario.
it's like RITO is saying that most melee assassins don't fight the same enemies as Sylas so they don't deserve the overcompensation that Sylas gets for being melee vs ranged mages
From the tumbnail i completely thought this was about talon
Just gotta say, using Stormblood OST to give the Rebellion touch to the video is chefs kiss
the ability power seemingly random on alot of champs actually does hold a balance factor: baron buff. Even if it seems insignificant if ud take the ap ratio away from malphite itd be a nerf to his full tank playstyle aswell. Tho given itd be a small one.
I just don’t like how he can just is stronger. Simply. He just wins almost every fight. He does not even need to land his E and Q. He just has too much dmg in his W and passive.
Also I feel that he isn’t hard at all
i was so hyped for Sylas. when he was annouced i was so sure that he will be ap fighter- his passive was such a set up for lich bane rush and entire base kit was perfect for fighter class. unfortunetaly riot and community force that bursty playstyle with focus on ap scalling on R- it was kinda deal breaker at least for me
It's just because they can't make ap figther item
@@overgrand8880 ye, but that problem just makes every mage go bursty. riot is avoiding main issue of AP with ability power being flat stat that cant be divided by classes like adc/fighter/assasin with base ad, bonus ad and crit. it just limits the variety and uniqueness of AP champions
@@sheenie8897 Sylas is like Diana is suffer the lack of ap bruiser item this is why sylas is now a assassin and most ap bruisers have broken kit because otherwise they would be trash since they don’t have good item like Gwen morde
When i think of sylas i think of a red crimsom banner, hammer and a sickle cross at each other and a red star with a golden border on top of it
Thank you for posting and making amazing content for league
Not really relevant to the point of the video but, is Ahri really considered a burst mage now? I remember Riot specifically saying in the past she was not meant to be a burst mage, and was part of the bigger issue of DFG back in the day since it was turning nonburst mages like Ahri into burst mages
She is definitely considered to be a burst mage, even more so after her midscope. Unless you consider her a battlemage or an artillery mage? I don't know what you thought she was
@@dominicguye8058 for what it's worth I never agreed with Riot. But iirc in the patch notes itself (which I can't seem to find a direct link to since it's from season 5) they said that dfg helped make Ahri into a burst mage which they didn't want her to be. They wanted her to be a "mobile mage" weaving through teams and maximizing q damage across the team. Which was in part why they removed the damage amp from her E in the same patch. Clearly they've given it back, I just never realized they officially changed stance and classified her as a burst mage.
Hold on right there, 1:45. Before the new items teemo used to be a slayer/assasin. Not many people know this tho.
Riot games when you tell them not every champion should be ideal in every situation. Maybe if there's no good ults to steal he shouldn't be a good pick, how fucking crazy would that be.
You should consider dividing your video into a timeline with different sections, it would make navigating it a lot easier!
sylas is good at a lot of things that’s what i like. I can play him for one tap for poke for tanking or bruising or even for cc with after shock it’s insane versatility
Next April 1 you ought to release a video called "Why No One Plays League of Legends"
He's beyond a 200-years champ who gets to do everything better than whoever he steals from and also gets to heal half his HP AND take half of yours even if he's 1/6/0
Legit my vote for second-worst design in the game, right behind Yuumi
For 11:05 if the enemy team has a swain, sylas is officially 1v9 auto win champ
That's why i always permaban sylas
Great quality video mate
can't really play him too well but its very fun when i do try him.
Could have mentioned play style though - with no frontline on the team everyone will expect you to go engage for them and you will just get crushed
I love ur content, its really good and i love ur edit style. Keep it up :))
I’m contracting a tumour just watching the background gameplay
I checked the comments before writing mine to be sure but I didn't see any mention about his low cooldowns on EACH of his skills... Wtf Riot, just nerf the CD if you don't want to nerf his damage ! But do it too ffs !
He builds 30+ ability haste, with the bulk coming from lucidity boots and cosmic drive, and can go past 50 or 60 depending on zhonyas and other items
@@bladeless1344 Exactly. This is really stupid...
Sylas jg is actually really strong it just looks very weak in the hands of somebody who isn't experienced on the champion. It allows him to apt into a much better build as he doesnt need to build mana/ defensive items which he requires to function as a laner as well as giving him to ability to move around the map more freely to take the best ults as well as look for picks with his amazing catch power. As long as you get some support from any early invades he outscales lane sylas with more snowball power.
Kaisa ult doesnt even work with him which i learned the hard way
1:34 Remember when Jhin was actually deserving of the "Assassin" class? Yeah, Vars neither clearly 💀.
Idk about other people, but my biggest draw to Sylas at the time (and still) is definitely his ult. There’s something about that “I can use your ult better than you” factor that just makes things so goddamn fun
Common Sylas W
Everyone plays sylas because he has a total of 150 something ultimates to use
Imagine champion effectivness being heavily reliant on what kind of teamp comp they are going up against. Thank god that totally never happens.
Seriously tho. I want to like Sylas but my problem with him is his overbuffed base kit. Throwing out his reliance on hijacking the right ultimate and using it well is basically throwing out his main part of skill expression. He ends up feeling more like a gimmicky flashy statchecker
Imo his ult needs to refer to the original ult owner’s ap - you get that ult, but without it being completely busted
"that would make him critically dependent on stealing a good ultimate" Yes pls do that. He is by far to me the most stupid champion currently in the game. And 9 times out of 10 he gets a good ult anyways so he just just currently hella overtuned.
Honestly, Sylas is my go-to ban because I just can not be arsed to play against him, since that is about as fun as getting your nails pulled out. 1. he does way too much dmg imo 2. he just heals way too fcking much 3. his R imo is the single most toxic ability in the game because, as you said, he gets to just use people's ultimate oftentimes without suffering the downsides. Sure, there is a handful of champions that might not be worth stealing from but the vast majority is decent at the very least and honestly balancing your entire team comp around the existence of one champion if he is early picked is just bs if you ask me. I prefer playing against literally any other midlaner that people tend to hate playing against. Sylas just removes all fun from the team if playing against him and imma hard-pass on that.
The main issue with Sylas jungle, at least judging by a little training tool practice, is that the poor man *dies to his camps*
I think you actually have to use a potion just to survive a full clear with barely any health, and I don't think it's that fast of a clear either but I don't recall for sure.
It just seems strange for Riot to literally designate him as a jungler but stiff him like that. And it would be an easy fix too, just let Kingslayer heal him off of monsters and not just champs. There, now he has jungle sustain and it doesn't impact lane.
Letting his passive do full damage to monsters that aren't his direct target would go a long way too, he doesn't seem nearly as good at killing multi monster camps as you would expect.
Wait, you don't think Twitch is the first marksman assassin?!? I feel he fits it better than Kai'sa honestly.
I am sylas jungle main and i can say that u know alot
You didn't mention is base stats. Last time I checked Sylas has some of the most busted base stats and stat growth in the game.
Yeah, in the original design, most abilities used ability power (surprise, surprise).
But ultimately, design goals shifted over the approaching 2 decades of development.
Nice video man
You should do a video on ksante as it has been perma picked in pro play while sustaining a good play rate in soloq
Personally been spamming sylas jungle and as someone with add it’s the most fun I can have. Constantly engaging and if I’m not switched on I’ll immediately fall behind lol.
AD Ultimates will scale with AP but giving AD damage for Sylas. Tho its not a very good Scaling, caitlyn ultimate can be usefull for finishing running enemies, kassadin can give him an extra dash and udyr ultimate i got no idea how that thing works. Tho, its very hard finding a game where the abilities are literally unusefull for sylas.
Man, it's 11:00 PM now here, i wanna watch the video but I'ma just sleep instead because i badly need it for tomorrow..
To quote one of my favorite Content creators: "Sylas is an eloinflating shit champ. Cool that everybody now decides to be good in the game when their peak was diamond 1 the last 7 years and now play in Master/Grandmaster spamming sylas."
Love sylas hes my main champion I often blind pick him. I love viego too, if sylas is banned I go viego. Love these champs for what they can do and what they offer, just too much fun and skill expression too
No joke, i got sylas apc the other day (d1 EUW),i was about to dodge, but didnt go through.He built heavy ap and absolutely destroyed the enemies
2:35 Because Viego's passive isn't as overpowered 🤨?
Meanwhile Rubick in DotA 2 - squishy mage, has a stun/push ability, a chain lightning can steal TWO spells (normal or ultimates, gains reduced cooldown on stolen spells and gains increased damage with all spells.
Then again DotA 2 is a mess of balance, Tinker still hasn't been nerfed and its a hero that can spam teleport without any counter play because of his Absorb Shield and BKB.
Tinker hasn't been good for years, only trash ranks complain because they're too stupid to know what to do and unwilling to work together and too stubborn to change their game plan/build. Then they cry that tinker gets fat and rolls them. 2 to 3 kills on him before 10 minutes or blink and his pretty much useless for the rest of the game.
@@fish-kt4iqonly need 1 in 7.34 before 10 mins. He so trash now like the peeps that bitch about him.
I like to put Sylas in the "is supposed to be fed" champion group, along with Viego and a few other champions.
This group is one of the most fun because of how rewarding it is to do well in games, you can see your strength difference when performing
Sylas also isn't that bad when behind, he can still duel a good chunk of the cast and can always steal a good ultimate if available
Every time i see someone play sylas it looks fun but when i play him i have zero fun even when stomping
I'd love that he was balanced, his lore and design are awesome, but laning against him is so unfair..
2 Dashes is what makes him broken. Remove 1 dash and he is okay.
Really liked this video.
Bashing ap Gnar is not okay.
Who else is going to auto attack you 6 times, then become huge, slow, and useless for the rest of the fight?
Sylus is them lookin at ekko, realizing the mistake they made, then doubling down to make it normal. Bursty, sticky, sustainy, and I dont mind to be honest. I always thought that ekko would make a great ap brawler if they cared enough to normalize those. Outside of sylus and very few others.
I have little to complain about his design. I'd make his knock up even shorter and only happen when he reaches you, but ultimately I think hes well designed.
I love his ult to death though, since mimic characters are my jam. If viego and sylus swapped ults, Id be a very happy camper. It wouldnt fekin work well but a cat can dream
When it starts with Music from The drowned City of Skalla, u know its a good one
At 4:20 Baus AP Gnar inc? xD
Also I think he shouldnt be so overtuned on the basekit ratios based on having "no ultimate". If u insist on firstpicking Sylas and then complain the enemy only picks champs with bad ults for u to steal, I dont think its their problem and that Sylas should be compensated for it. If the enemy team picked shit ults for u, then just dont pick Sylas? Sounds more balanced to me this way rather than making him forcibly playable that way, but ridiculous when theres good ults
As a Sylas top main, its so funny seeing people who dont know how to use him properly, and fail. Always people under plat.
Can’t wait for why everyone plays pyke
You can KS your adc and they won’t lose much out of it. 😂
Hey really cool video. Are you going to release a video about neeko’s rework ?
What if they tuned the power of the stolen Ultimate with the stats of the champion hit?