15% damage loss on Q is a massive nerf and these passive changes basically do nothing to add power to her kit except to make 6+ sphere ults easier to pull off.
A couple hundred extra damage every minute(which you can already pull off on live anyway) does not make up for the massive loss of DPS shes receiving from her primary damage spell.
As a Syndra main, i can totally agree with your views and i have been trying to get riot to realise her underpower ever since her nerf in late season 4. This mid-year mage season should be Syndra's time to shine but her preemptive nerf is starting to make me doubt. Her passive was completely fine beforehand. She already had bad enough numbers, just a little more care for the dark sovereign could put Syndra players at ease. I can see Riot's intentions with the buffs to champions Syndra is good against, but for the first time in a couple of years can they just let her thrive in the meta. Please for the sake of Syndra players waiting for 2 years, can you just let her be.
What happened to making her passive useful before lvl 9. I thought that was the whole point of this update to Syndra.
Wasnt syndra Q nerfed before making its damage abyssmal?
now they nerf it...AGAIN?
They upped the AP Ratio on her Q from 60% to 70% to compensate, where as on live level 9 and on it has a 69% AP Ratio.
it makes me wonder what happened to that true damage thing they were going to add to her Q and why they didnt.
That's the point. They wanna agument her playstyle. At least that's what i think. It might be a nerf, might be a buff. Won't know untill you try it out.
Meanwhile veigar get huge buff.....
As soon as you get over not being able to reign your syndra user superiority over everyone you'll eventually realize that Syndra will ultimately be better and more consistent overall after these changes. (I love playing syndra, btw)
losing 35 base damage off Q but gaining over 200-500 base damage and 60% AP ratio on ult... are you guys honestly complaining about that?
i did some math on the new syndra and found that syndra on the PBE will be dealing more damage with her Q before it is maxed at level 9 but when it is maxed she will deal about 30 less damage than the syndra that is on live i did the math assuming that syndra has any were between 100-300 ap which is about 2 items in
Rofl, I really do hope they'll re-evaluate these changes before it ends up on Live. I'd rather Riot change W's new rank 5 effect to something else and either increase the base damage per level on Q, or increase its AP ratio to 0,8 or something.
They're buffing the ap ratio to compensate. And with much more balls out, her ult will do more damage.
