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Sylas vs Volibear

How often does Sylas beat Volibear in Jungle?

Sylas into Volibear in Jungle: 48% observed win rate across 833 ranked games.

Global ranked sample: games from every region and every rank pooled together, not one server's stats. Data runs through patch 26.12; curves updated 2026-08-07.

By 15 minutes the median game has Sylas ahead by 164 gold.

Sylas at 15:00

Typical gap to Volibear, from 831 games that reached 15:00.

Does Sylas counter Volibear?

No counter here: Sylas sits at 48% over 833 games. The swing lives in the spots below, so play the side you know better and chase the row that moves the number the most in this lane, then hold that lead through the first back.

Beating Volibear: the Sylas game plan

A gold lead at 10:00 puts Sylas at 57% across 440 games. Flip the lead and Sylas falls to 38% across 393.

The spotWin rateGames
Ahead in gold at 10:0057%440
Behind in gold at 10:0038%393
First blood54%498
+kills at 10:0057%375
+CS at 10:0059%330
0 deaths at 10:0054%204
0 deaths at 15:0061%83

Someone usually dies here around 6:20 in the median game, and level 6 lands near 7:17. Until your spike is online, respect the all-in.

Sylas's Jungle build, with receipts

Into Volibear specifically, Sylas finishes Hextech Rocketbelt first most often: 48.7% over 300 games of this matchup.

The most-finished core in this exact matchup is Hextech Rocketbelt, Riftmaker, Zhonya's Hourglass: 53.0% across 115 games.

The most-finished Sylas core is Hextech Rocketbelt, Riftmaker, Zhonya's Hourglass: 54.3% across 12,052 games when all three got done. All matchups, patches 26.1-26.12.

Most games start Scorchclaw Pup + Health Potion; the first finished item is usually Hextech Rocketbelt (32,249 games).

Skill plan: Sylas players max W first and take E at level 1.

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