Why don't teams ban Bjergsen's Syndra?

III BAKURYU III ·3/20/2018, 1:18:20 AM·3 votes·1,083 views

5 bans -10 total and yet, teams still don't ban out Bjergsen's Syndra!?

Why?

He has played more Syndra(59 games in his career) than his next highest played champion Ori(41 games)for close to a full split(18 games) and yet Syndra wasn't even in the top 5 most banned champions against TSM for teams.

Hmm, most picked champion in his career and has been a large portion of the last 3 years for him.
Hmm, 3rd highest win % with 20+ games behind his Azir and Cass.
Hmm, after a 4-6 start for TSM he picked Syndra 3 times in the last 10 games for TSM and won all 3.

Do teams not realize that when Bjergsen/TSM are in a pickle he plays her constantly over and over again?
IF I was Clutch Gaming I would ban out Syndra period!

15 Comments

ModWulf Helhammer3/20/2018, 1:41:00 AM2 votes

You can't ban out Bjergsen. The guy simply has too many champions. Better to just focus on banning out OPs or champs that counter a team comp than focusing on any individual member on the squad.

GeminiRune3/20/2018, 2:31:49 AM2 votes

I was watching those games with my brother while discussing some other stuff in general. And we came to the conclusion: we have no freaking idea. It's bizarre how the moment the likes of Huhi and Aurelion Sol win it becomes a target reminder but then you get Bjerg with Syndra and it's like "we can beat this." Not to grieve; it was just really astonishing how many times it was let through based on his mastery. Of course it's still Syndra vs Sol: common meta pick vs uncommon pocket pick. Hard to discuss or debate that.

Raiyza3/22/2018, 7:22:34 PM2 votes

Its because teams can work around the Syndra pick. They arent losing games because of the champion against TSM, but rather TSM has shown that they can revolve around whatever champion bjergsen picks.

LinoWidge3/23/2018, 3:32:04 AM2 votes

I think it's just that non-OP mids aren't exactly viewed as ban-worthy. As a comparison I'm going to use Jensen & his Ori (I know he hardly played it this split, but it's a great comparison since no-one seems to ban it away from him & he dominates almost every time he picks it).

Bjergsen/Syndra: [GAMES] 59 [WIN-RATE] 71.2%(42/17) [KDA] 5.65 [CS] 349.56

Jensen/Oriana: [GAMES] 49 [WIN-RATE] 71.4%(35/14) [KDA] 8.41 [CS] 332.96

As you can see the stats are similar but no team dares ban these picks since if you ban them you likely end up giving away OP picks that will likely have more say in how the game progresses than the Syndra/Ori pick would.

Zohan7893/28/2018, 8:42:45 PM1 votes

Same reason they don't ban Wymul Ziggs dude, it's just too good

BigBellBrute3/28/2018, 9:33:05 PM1 votes

They're not banning it out now because she is down a bit right now. Near the bottom of the list in fact. And Bjerg has several other champs you don't really want to see him on either that are higher powered for pro play. at the moment.

Swain is broken at the pro level.