Should You Main Sylas? Tier D
Sylas is tier D for maining. Only 31 of its mains are Challenger or Grandmaster across the three major regions, against 1,537,403 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Sylas scores 1.73 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 1.73 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 12 Challenger · 19 Grandmaster · 117 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 1,537,403 games played worldwide · 16.69% pick rate · 14.37% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
Sylas is going to be one of the D tier contestants as well. He is quite strong in higher elo especially if you know how to play him. But with a 14% ban rate and a 16% main rate or 16% pick rate and mains I guess somewhat being in high elo you're not going to really be able to play him too much.
He is highly contested. I know there's one Sylas main and challenger right now in NA and then there's some a lot of people who play him. So, Sylas is just going to be one of those niche champions of 12 challengers and 19 GMs.
It sounds like a lot, but with how many with how much he's played, it's not very much at all. Synra is going to be okay to main as well.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.