Malphite vs Sylas Counter Pick
Matchup Summary
What the Data Means
Malphite, Shard of the Monolith, meets Sylas, the Unshackled, in the jungle. The sample behind this page is 462 games from patch 16.13.1, and Malphite wins 40.7% of them. A deficit of 9.3 points is what earns Sylas its counter flag in this matchup.
Both champions are melee (Malphite at 125, Sylas at 175), so the matchup is decided by cooldowns rather than reach.
With Malphite and Sylas both dealing mixed damage, stacking a single stat answers most of it. Malphite opens on 665 health and 40 armour, Sylas on 600 and 29. Malphite absorbs early autos better by 11 armour. By level 18 that becomes 2433 health and 124 armour for Malphite against 2674 and 117 for Sylas. Sylas covers ground faster from level one (335 against 340).
Abscond / Abduct (E) is the ability Malphite has to respect, just as Sylas plays around Seismic Shard. Whoever spends Unstoppable Force or Hijack first hands the other a window.
Riot scores Sylas at 5/10 for difficulty against 2/10, and that gap alone drags on the average. Malphite players logged 462 of these games to produce the 40.7% figure.
FAQ
No — current data marks this as a counter matchup: Sylas has the statistical edge. Malphite wins 40.7% of the recorded games.
40.7% from Malphite's perspective, measured on patch 16.13.1.
462 ranked games at Emerald rank and above, across all regions.
The current Malphite build — items, runes and skill order from the same data set — is on the Malphite build page.