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3 quarters of season have passed, why can's Syndra get a buff to become viable?

Asud··3 votes·2,066 views

I wrote this before, i write it again, Syndra is the champion i consider as my main, i picked her up last season and played her to some success. But this season she is just a troll pick, since the runes have changed she has become a troll pick and they still ignore her. Her winrates are in the abyss, she cant bully anyone out of the lane which is her job btw. Her ult does almost no damage at 6, but lets avoid the ult i know people hate it. She is one of the least mobile champions in the entire game where every month some new mobility makes way into the game in form of new champions and reworks respectively. Her full combo ( Q+E+W) isnt easy to hit at all yet it does less damage then many other more spammable damage abilities.

She need some serious help. Now i am aware of what kind of champion she is, and if they overbuff something she will break pro play with waveclear and zone of control. But if someone from Riot could read this ( im pretty sure they wont, they dont give a damn about balance and normal players) BUT, if they could read this i do have some ideas how to fix her, and its quite simple

  1. buff her Q damage to champions only : make it hurt, its easy to dodge and it doesnt even do anything now. dont change damage to minions because we dont want her to be another Talyah.
  2. give her movement speed: increase her base movespeed by 10. Now dont go insane do the math, normally she won't get more than 10 % movespeed which isnt that much, not to someone as immobile as her, and only after her ult would she get a short burst of movespeed to maybe run away or finish the kill with 1 last Q before the buff expires and/or give her balls passive where she gets 5% movement speed for every ball on the ground
  3. help her mana sustain

all of this would only help those who already know how to play her, make her strong but nowhere near broken like many other are

ALSO make some legendary skin for her so you have a reason to buff her Everyone happy! Good night

3 Comments

Jbels2 votes

Remember when Syndra had entire seasons of being good? She is finally on the back end and you think she needs buffs again? If you actually look at Syndra's winrate by patch, it has been steadily increasing. Not by much, but it shows a pattern of increase. Keep playing her. She isn't unviable yet

Asud1 votes

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Remember when Syndra had entire seasons of being good? She is finally on the back end and you think she needs buffs again? If you actually look at Syndra's winrate by patch, it has been steadily increasing. Not by much, but it shows a pattern of increase. Keep playing her. She isn't unviable yet

She was barely ever above average, yes for last couple of seasons she could actually kill someone who isnt dead already but she was never god tier, she has bugs, she is one of the hardest mages to pilot with 3 main spells being hard skilshots, main damage spell Q has one of the smallest AOEs in the game, Lux's E isnt even a skillshot compared to this. If you know her as a champ you will almost never get hit by Q in lane because of the channel so Syndra has to outsmart you for poke. Her W you can see coming from a mile away And her stun is one of the hardest to hit i can compare it to Viktors W implicing that the enemy has to be dumb most of the time to get hit. you never stand in line with her and spheres, you always move in and out of her range of control which is 800 range i believe. So the only way she can get close to "certain" stun is to Q close to you but not at you then E and hope you done have a mobility spell so you wont even get hit by full combo. Any other time someone getting stunned by her while being able to see her is just stupid. Also THE INFAMOUS Syndra ultimate isnt strong nearly as much as people cry about it. Her basic R without preparing the balls on ground wont do any significant damage to anyone, and if she has R and tries to stack the bals you just move away for 5 seconds if she tries to stack them again move away again and congrats you just won the lane she has no more mana. Ziggs R does same damage but AOE and also half map away Lux's R should never be called a skill shot cuz its fast and she usually fires it on immobilized targets, also semi global, also has a reset, does the same damage, but i understand lux is girls champ, she has quite a few expensive skins, so we cant let such a popular champion suffer at any time. oriannas ultimate is game changer and no one ever says anything Karthus can do what Syndra does but only to everyone wherever they are on the map I just done know what right anyone has to complain while being 2 or 3 levels down and having no magic resist at all about burst mage with single target ultimate 100-0 them.

TheFoxWolf2 votes

Controversial opinion:

Give Lux's ult-kill reset to Syndra. It makes much more mechanical and thematic sense for her to have it.

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