Sylas is known for his high damage and huge health bar. As he got buffed in TFT, he can sustain the whole of an enemy's incoming damage as he heals a huge percentage of his mixing health every time he uses his skill.
Sylas shares in TFT 2 critical traits, which are the Anima Squad, which gives him tonnes of extra health, and the Renegade trait.
This is a full article on how to best place Sylas in TFT to make sure you win your games and get to first place.
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Sylas combos are known for the Anima Squad, as this squad gains tonnes of extra health every time they kill an enemy champion.
Placing Sylas on the frontlines would be a huge advantage for you as he can block all the incoming damage, which would allow your team, especially Miss Fortune, to deal massive damage.
If you are looking for how to best place Sylas in TFT with the right squad having the right items, you are in the right place, as all of this will be discussed in detail down below.
Best Sylas builds in TFT Set 8
Sylas’s stats:
- Cost: 1 Gold
- Health: 700 / 1260 / 2268
- Mana: 80
- Starting Mana: 30
- Armor: 45
- MR: 45
- DPS: 28 / 50 / 89
- Damage: 50 / 90 / 162
- Atk Spd: 0.55
- Crit Rate: 25%
- Range: 1
Sylas’s traits:
1-Anima Squad
Anima Squad members pose after champion kills, increasing their fame. Anima Squad units gain permanent 5 Health per fame stack acquired this game.
Anima Squad units also gain:
- 3 10% Attack Damage and 10 Ability Power
- 5 30% Attack Damage and 30 Ability Power
- 7 55% Attack Damage and 55 Ability Power
2-Renegade
Renegade units deal bonus damage, and the last one standing deals more.
- 3 35% bonus damage, 20% for last alive
- 6 60% bonus damage, 40% for last alive
Sylas’s ability
Sylas whirls his chains around him, healing himself for health and dealing magic damage to nearby enemies.
% Health as Damage: 10% / 12% / 15%
Heal: 150 / 170 / 190
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Sylas’s best items
1-Warmog’s Armor
Grants 500 bonus Health.
2-Sunfire Cape
Grant 150 bonus Health
At start of combat, and every 2 seconds thereafter, applies a 10-second burn to a random enemy within 2 hexes, dealing 1% of target's maximum health true damage each second and applying Grievous for the duration.
3-Gargoyle Stoneplate
The holder gains 13 bonus armor and bonus magic resistance for each enemy targeting them.
Best comps for Sylas
3) SUPER SQUAD
Synergies:
- 1 Ace
- 5 Anima Squad
- 3 Supers
- 2 Mascot
- 2 Brawler
- 2 Duelist
This is one of the slowest rerolls with a really good economy, as all of them cost less than 3 gold except for Miss Fortune.
This comp revolves around multiple traits, which will grant your team a huge advantage defending Miss Fortune as she deals the damage needed.
Best team for this comp:
1-Miss Fortune has the Ace trait enabled and the Anima Squad trait shared, which allows her to deal damage regardless of the AP equipment she uses.
2-Another tough Anima Squad member that can take a beating while acting as a battle mascot is Nasus.
3-Riven is one of the most powerful members of the Anima Squad. She has the brawler characteristic, which makes her a huge beast with the ability to cause harm and endure in the heat of battle.
4-Sylas' skill heals, and it gets stronger as more ability power is provided by the Anima Squad, making him a fantastic tank for the front lines.
5-Vayne would be the 5th Anima Squad and the 2nd Duelist which would be a great choice to be placed on your board.
6-Malphite is a really good frontline and a critical champion as he shares both the Supers and Mascot traits.
7-Lee Sin would be sharing the Supers trait, which would greatly increase his damage.
8-Gangplank is the last member of the Supers and the Duelist trait activator.
2) SYLAS THE BEAST
Synergies:
- 3 Renegade
- 4 Aegis
- 3 Anima Squad
- 2 Mascot
- 2 Ox Force
- 2 Prankester
This is a slow reroll to level 8, making sure you get all the champions that cost less than 4 gold to level 3 as early as possible.
This comp revolves around Sylas being soloed on the frontlines, tanking all the incoming damage.
Best team for this build:
1-Ekko has the traits Aegis and Prankster and is a skilled summoner and tank. He is a strong frontline player.
2-Alistar is an important member of your front line. He also has Ox Force and Aegis in common with your team.
3-Another tough Anima Squad member that can take a beating while acting as a battle mascot is Nasus.
4-The prankster personality trait is shared by Jinx and her friend Ekko, which indicates that they both take pleasure in poking fun of other people.
5-Sylas’ skill heals, and it gets stronger as more ability power is provided by the Anima Squad, making him a fantastic tank for the front lines.
6-Leona would be the 2rd Aegis on your squad which would grant your team extra magic resist and she would be sharing the Renegade trait.
7-Vi is the 3rd Aegis which would be a great fit on your team.
8-Viego would be dealing the most of the damage as he shares the Renegade trait and the Ox Force trait, which would make him a beast.
1) DEFEND THE SQUAD
Synergies:
- 3 Prankester
- 5 Anima Squad
- 2 Mascot
- 2 Aegis
- 1 Ace
The core of this squad is the Anima Squad function, which gives your team a tons of damage that builds up over time.
When she had a lot of accumulated damage in the late game, Miss Fortune would be a true beast when it came to doing damage.
This combo automatically rerolls to level 8 if you have more than 50 gold to guarantee that everyone with less than 4 gold achieves level 3.
The best team to do this is:
1-Miss Fortune has the Ace trait enabled and the Anima Squad trait shared, which allows her to deal damage regardless of the AP equipment she uses.
2-Ekko has the traits Aegis and Prankster and is a skilled summoner and tank. He is a strong frontline player.
3-Alistar is an important member of your front line. He also has Ox Force and Aegis in common with your team.
4-Another tough Anima Squad member that can take a beating while acting as a battle mascot is Nasus.
5-The prankster personality trait is shared by Jinx and her friend Ekko, which indicates that they both take pleasure in poking fun of other people.
6-Riven is one of the most powerful members of the Anima Squad. She has the brawler characteristic, which makes her a huge beast with the ability to cause harm and endure in the heat of battle.
7-Zoe may set enemies on fire by giving the squad the Prankster trait and using his third passive, which stuns enemies who kill practise dummies.
8-Sylas' skill heals, and it gets stronger as more ability power is provided by the Anima Squad, making him a fantastic tank for the front lines.
