Sylas ARAM Mayhem Build

The Unshackled. A middle-of-the-pack pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: #78 of 173 champions.

BPatch 26.21MageAssassinNo runes in Mayhem

Tier: B
Win rate: 49.7%
Pick rate: 8.7%
Rank: #78 of 173
Games: 2,025,949
Patch: 26.21

How to play Sylas in ARAM Mayhem

Sylas is a solid, middle-of-the-pack pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: tier B, #78 of 173 champions, with a 49.7% win rate over 2,025,949 games. It is also one of the most picked champions, showing up in 9% of games, so expect to see it on both sides.

81% of Sylas's damage to champions is magic, so enemy magic resist is what slows it down. It soaks 58,076 damage per game and mitigates another 52,724, so it belongs at the front: start fights and absorb the poke your carries can't.

Most Sylas players go AP (60% of games), but the Tank path, tank items, is ARAMKit's top-ranked build: Heartsteel, Unending Despair and Warmog's Armor, with a 50.8% win rate. On this build 68% of players skip boots and spend the slot on another item.

The cards that do best on Sylas are Armored Impact, Back To Basics and Take'em Down Down Down. Cards built around ability haste fill most of the top of its list, followed by ability power. Skip Surge Field and Nature is Healing when you can: they do worst on Sylas. A pair to look for: Back To Basics with Armored Impact.

Take Flash and Mark (95% of players). Max W (Kingslayer) first, then E, then Q.

Sylas ARAM Mayhem build

ARAMKit groups every Sylas game by build path. The top-ranked path comes first, with the items most players start with, buy first and add later.

Tank build · top ranked

50.8% win rate · 9% of Sylas games · 159,752 games

Start

Ruby Crystal
Bami's Cinder

Core items, in buying order

Heartsteel
Unending Despair
Warmog's Armor

Boots on the Tank build for Sylas, top ranked first, with the share of players who buy them
Boots, best first	Players
No boots	68%
Mercury's Treads	21%
Gluttonous Greaves	5%

Situational, after the core

Riftmaker44% buy it
Spirit Visage26% buy it
Jak'Sho, The Protean10% buy it
Rod of Ages4% buy it
Randuin's Omen8% buy it
Rabadon's Deathcap4% buy it

Other build paths

Other Sylas build paths with share of games, win rate and core items
Path	Core items	Games	Win rate
CritEssence Reaver, Rite of Ruin, Death's Dance		1.6%	51.7%
APShadowflame, Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane		60.3%	49.8%

Games: the share of all Sylas games that went this way.

Most bought items

Shadowflame54% of games
Riftmaker53% of games
Rabadon's Deathcap39% of games
Rod of Ages37% of games
Lich Bane30% of games
Heartsteel26% of games
Spirit Visage19% of games
Zhonya's Hourglass19% of games
Mercury's Treads19% of games
Sorcerer's Shoes17% of games

Best augments for Sylas

Every card with enough Sylas games, by tier and best first within each tier. Tiers are Sylas's own: a card can be S tier here and C tier on another champion. As Riot's policy asks, cards are shown by tier and order only, never with a win rate. Click a card for its own page; the augment tier list ranks them over all champions.

PrismaticBest prismatic cards

GoldBest gold cards

SilverBest silver cards

S- and A-tier cards for Sylas

9 S tier and 31 A tier, best first.

The S- and A-tier augments for Sylas in ARAM Mayhem, best first, with their rarity and what they do
Augment	Rarity	Tier	What it does
Armored Impact	Gold	Tier S	After casting an Ability, your next Attack deals (50–125 (by level) +250% Bonus Armor) bonus physical damage to nearby enemies.
Back To Basics	Prismatic	Tier S	Your Ultimate Ability is sealed. Gain 35% Ability Damage, Healing, Shielding, and 70 Ability Haste.
Take'em Down Down Down	Gold	Tier S	Attacks and Abilities apply a stack to enemy champions for 5 seconds and deal Melee (5–30 (by level) +35% Bonus Attack Damage+15% Ability…
The Boom and the Bass	Gold	Tier S	After casting an Ability, your next Attack within 6 seconds is faster, deals Melee (50–200 (by level) +50% Bonus Attack Damage+30% Ability…
Wooglet's Witchcap	Prismatic	Tier S	QUEST: Possess Rabadon's Deathcap and Zhonya's Hourglass. REWARD: Get Wooglet's Witchcap.
Blue Barrier	Silver	Tier S	Gain 200–450 (by level) % of the Max Mana Mana you spend as a Shield for 1.5 seconds. Shields up to 300–800 (by level)
Escape Plan	Silver	Tier S	Gain a massive (65% Max Health) decaying Shield, decaying 150% Movement Speed, and a decaying shrink effect upon reaching 35% Health (75…
Swift and Safe	Silver	Tier S	Gain a (65–290 (by level) +26% Ability Power +65% Bonus Attack Damage) Shield for 2 seconds after a Dash or Blink (5 seconds Cooldown).
Marksmage	Gold	Tier S	Your Attacks deal an additional (75% Ability Power) physical damage.
Mad Scientist	Prismatic	Tier A	On each Revive, you grow large (gaining 30% Adaptive Force and 20% Health) or tiny (gaining 70 Ability Haste and 40% Movement Speed).
Weapon of Destiny	Gold	Tier A	Your first Legendary Item becomes the Weapon of Destiny. When a champion you damaged within the last 3 seconds dies, increase the Weapon of…
Upgrade Immolate	Silver	Tier A	Hollow Radiance and Sunfire Aegis grant 12 Gold per target affected with Immolate. Gain 250 Gold.
Hand of Baron	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 25% Adaptive Force. Nearby allied minions are greatly empowered.
Sap Magic	Gold	Tier A	Every 20 seconds, your next Attack deals (80–300 (by level) +5% Bonus Health) bonus physical damage and restores (50–250 (by level) +8% Max…
Omni Soul	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 3 random Dragon Souls.
Outlaw's Grit	Gold	Tier A	After using a Dash, Blink, or Teleport Ability you gain 12 Armor and Magic Resist up to 60 at 5 stacks. Resets every 15 seconds.
Giant Slayer	Prismatic	Tier A	Become tiny, gain 20% Movement Speed, and deal between 10% and 30% bonus damage to champions based on how much larger they are than you.
Lich Brain	Silver	Tier A	Gain (30+4% Bonus Health) Ability Power.
Shadow Runner	Silver	Tier A	After using a Dash, Blink, or Teleport Ability or exiting Stealth, gain 300 Movement Speed for 2 seconds.
Steel Your Heart	Gold	Tier A	QUEST: Possess Heartsteel with 300 stacks. REWARD: Multiply Heartsteel stacks by 3.
Mind to Matter	Silver	Tier A	Gain (50% Max Mana) Health.
Tooth Fairy	Gold	Tier A	When you deal more than 25% of an enemy champion's Health in less than 2.5 seconds, they drop a Tooth. 4 seconds cooldown per target
From Beginning To End	Gold	Tier A	Gain the First Strike and Dark Harvest Keystone Runes. First Strike: When you initiate champion combat, deal 10% extra damage for 3 seconds…
Dashing	Prismatic	Tier A	Your dash, leap, blink, or teleport Abilities gain 175 Ability Haste.
Infinite Recursion	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 60 Ability Haste, plus 3 Ability Haste per takedown.
Heavy Hitter	Silver	Tier A	Your Attacks deal additional (3.5% Max Health) physical damage.
Clown College	Prismatic	Tier A	Backstab: You deal (20–35 (by level) +35% Ability Power +50% Bonus Attack Damage) bonus physical damage when striking from behind. Deceive…
Fruitify	Silver	Tier A	Scoring a Takedown causes the slain champion to explode into 3–6 (by level) Fruit. Fruit restores 6% of your maximum health and restores 6%…
Stats!	Silver	Tier A	Gain 2 Stat Anvils!
Stats on Stats!	Gold	Tier A	Gain 3 Stat Anvils, with a higher chance of Gold and Prismatic Anvils!
Warlock Juicebox	Gold	Tier A	Gain (10%+3.5% Ability Power) Omnivamp.
Final Form	Prismatic	Tier A	After casting your Ultimate, gain a 50% max Health Shield, 20% Omnivamp and 30% bonus Movement Speed for 10 seconds. (20 seconds Cooldown).
Goliath	Prismatic	Tier A	Become large, gaining 35% Health and 15% Adaptive Force.
En Passant	Prismatic	Tier A	Periodically identify Vitals on enemy champions. Hitting Vitals with Attacks or Abilities deals an additional 6% + 1.5% per stack max Health…
Hellbent	Prismatic	Tier A	Striking enemy champions with Attacks or Abilities grants you a stack of Revivemaxxing for 6 seconds (max: 10). At max stacks become…
Donation	Gold	Tier A	Receive 1750 Gold. Thanks chat!:)
Titan's Resolve	Prismatic	Tier A	Dealing and receiving champion damage grants you 1 stack of Juggernauting for 6 seconds. For every 10 stacks of Juggernauting you gain 25–75…
FireFox	Silver	Tier A	Autocast: Gain 25% movement speed and conjure three flames that orbit you every 9 seconds, targetting the closest visible enemy in range and…
Transmute: Prismatic	Gold	Tier A	Gain a random Augment Tier Prismatic Augment.
Transmute: Chaos	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 2 random Augment Tier Augments.

Average on Sylas
53 cards, best first

Below average on Sylas
36 cards, best first

Weakest on Sylas
12 cards, best first

Best first augment for Sylas

Your first card decides the early fights, and a card that is great as a first pick can be a weak fourth. ARAMKit ranks Sylas's cards for each pick on its own; these are the top five per pick, with their tier in that pick. For the first pick, Armored Impact, Back To Basics and Take'em Down Down Down come out on top.

The best augments for Sylas in each pick of an ARAM Mayhem game, best first, with their tier in that pick
#	First pick	Second pick	Third pick	Fourth pick
1	Armored ImpactTier S	Back To BasicsTier S	Hand of BaronTier S	The Boom and the BassTier S
2	Back To BasicsTier S	Bread and CheeseTier S	Back To BasicsTier S	Take'em Down Down DownTier S
3	Take'em Down Down DownTier S	Take'em Down Down DownTier S	The Boom and the BassTier S	Back To BasicsTier S
4	Wooglet's WitchcapTier S	Armored ImpactTier S	Take'em Down Down DownTier S	Blue BarrierTier S
5	Upgrade ImmolateTier S	The Boom and the BassTier S	Blue BarrierTier S	Escape PlanTier S

Strong card pairs

Two cards that do especially well together on Sylas, best pair first.

Summoner spells and skill order

Summoner spells

Flash + Mark95% of players · 49.9% win rate
Flash + Ghost4% of players · 48.0% win rate
Ghost + Mark0% of players · 46.9% win rate

Skill order

WKingslayer
EAbscond / Abduct
QChain Lash

Max W first. 67% of players use this order (51.4% win rate); put points in R whenever you can.

Sylas in an average Mayhem game

Averages per game over every game on this patch.

K / D / A: 12.7 / 12.5 / 22.1
KDA: 3.02
Damage to champions: 40,605
Damage taken: 58,076
Self-mitigated: 52,724
Healing on allies: 58
Shielding on allies: 51
Crowd control: 25 s
Kill participation: 64%
Game length: 16:26

Damage type

Physical 14%Magic 81%True 5%

Questions and answers

What is the best Sylas build in ARAM Mayhem?

On patch 26.21 ARAMKit ranks the Tank build first for Sylas: Heartsteel, Unending Despair and Warmog's Armor. The most played build is AP.

What are the best augments for Sylas in ARAM Mayhem?

The S-tier cards for Sylas, best first: Armored Impact, Back To Basics, Take'em Down Down Down, The Boom and the Bass and Wooglet's Witchcap. The full list by tier is on this page.

Is Sylas good in ARAM Mayhem?

Sylas is tier B on patch 26.21, #78 of 173 champions, with a 49.7% win rate over 2 million games. That makes it a solid, middle-of-the-pack pick in ARAM Mayhem right now.

What is the best first augment for Sylas in ARAM Mayhem?

For Sylas's first pick on patch 26.21: Armored Impact, Back To Basics, Take'em Down Down Down, Wooglet's Witchcap and Upgrade Immolate, best first. Cards rank differently in later picks; the table on this page has all four.

Other Mages in ARAM Mayhem

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ARAM Mayhem tier list
Every champion by tier on patch 26.21.
ARAM Mayhem augment tier list
Every card from S to D over all champions.
All Mayhem builds
Pick a champion from the full list.
ARAM Mayhem rules
Augment levels, rerolls and why there are no runes.
ARAM Mayhem guide
How the mode, the cards and the picks work.
Sylas counters
Its lane matchups on Summoner's Rift.
ARAM Mayhem overlay
The card picker and build in the app.

Source: ARAMKit, used with permission. Patch 26.21, 23,177,263 ARAM Mayhem games, data of October 28, 2026. Riot keeps Mayhem games out of its public match API, so these aggregates come from ARAMKit. Card tiers are shown without win rates, as Riot's developer policy asks.