Syndra again (with TLDR for anti-readers)
Hi, me again. On Syndra topic again because i want a rioter to look at this. And if you're just passing by there is TLDR version at the bottom. So someone commented on my previous post saying that she isn't that much weaker so i decided to do the math and see just how much weaker she is. She was very decent in season 7 because everything was better suited for her. Now she is garbage for like 15/16 months.
Her W could pick up multiple spheres allowing her to nuke one target and then pick up 3 balls with W throw them and stun whole enemy team. So her stun was better and more powerful when W was maxed. That got changed but that's not what destroyed her. She had more mana to work with so she could lane bully harder and not run OOM after 3 combos. This did hit her quite hard but this didn't kill her either. Her ultimate did way, and i mean way more damage like numbers cannot even explain how she got bad over the night. Perhaps it had to do with the change of the duration of her balls, because she cannot do a 7 ball ultimate now. Lost chapter was her most important start so she could have strong all in at level 6. It used to cost 900 gold. Now it costs 1300 gold which is impossible to collect from farming minions before you hit 6. Masteries and runes hit her the hardest though. This is where she lost all of her early game power and became a meme of the great champion she used to be. Thunderlord's decree was great, as you could proc it with just auto attacks why enemy focused on trying to dodge the sphere which you would hold on for the time. Then the second and very important one was precision giving you magic penetration and lethality which helped in early auto attacks a lot that you cannot get now because its tied to mobile and stealth champions. You had to choose between "merciless" which was like new "coup the grace" and something like new manaflow band. And we had Greenfathers gift which was quite fun to use for me, dealing 3% of the opponents hp after walking in the brush to ward or check for vision. I mean it was genius thing. assassin> deal 2 % increased damage when no allied champions are nearby. and on top 3% out of combat movespeed for roaming Then sorcery > ability and spell damage increased by 2% then you had fresh blood> first auto attack deals 10+(1 per level) bonus damage. then bonus AP 3 + 0.67 per level and lastly double edged sword dealing 3% increased damage from all sources while taking 1.5% increased damage. Now i will do the math for season 7 Syndra when she was an actual champion. First of her Q had 75% AP ratio. Secondly everyone had more AP and some magic penetration since we had actual runes and not just this reforged crap. Against a Veigar for example in season 7, at level 2 with Q E and 1 basic attack Syndra would do 260 dmg. Now this includes AP and magic penetration she had in the old runes RIP. And all the cheesy stuff in the masteries. Now Veigar has more base hp and more health growth than he used to but then he would have 574 hp at level 2. So if she was to use 2 basic attacks in her combo she would do around 305 damage at level to which is more than 50% of S7 veigars hp. Now, today if we were to try this Syndra would deal 184 damage to lvl2 Veigar with Q+E +basic attack and electrocute. And even with 2 autos its still only 228 compared to old 305. So Syndra lost 30% of her damage at level 2. Her lvl2 combo with 2 auto attacks would deal 53% of Veigar's health bar, but nowadays it does 37% of his health bar. This is all considering that Veigar doesn't go full coward mode and take double magic resist in runes and i haven't even considered what happens if he takes bone plating LOL. Probably combo does like negative damage. Now with the math done right im quite sure that being 30% weaker on early levels where she used to look for cheese kills is quite a handicap least to say. It's like if you were an athlete who would compete on 100m sprint and do it in 10 seconds but now someone stabbed you in the leg in the dressing room and you still wanna run but now you run 13 seconds like a grandma in decent shape. TLDR Syndra's level 2 is 30% weaker now compared to season 7. And she is supposed to be an early game champ looking for kills way before level 6.
