I really like Syndra as a champion. Her kit is really unique and interesting but, her mana costs are kind of ridiculous. It feels like if I go to lane and cast q 2 - 3 times with an E in there somewhere I'm already OOM. Is there anyway we can balance this a bit? Maybe increase her start mana, or her mana regen per level a bit?
Thanks, King KSer.
Her early level (1-6) damage-mana efficiencies are garbage. Basically, the reason you notice running out of mana is because you have to put down a lot more abilities than most other people do for the same damage. Contrast to say, Viktor's E, which does take a lot - but you know one or two lasers in a minion wave and you're good to go. Syndra has to put down 4 or 5 abilities for the same effect.
Post laning mana is somewhat better now, as the 5.18 buff addressed that. She still has some pretty bad management problems, they're just a bit further back.
Recently I've just gone RoA on her first item. it seems to help with mana management. Also being a mid range type mage it helps to be a bit more beefy, I think her q cost is just too high for her mana pool.
Syndra needs a real mana buff, just increasing her mana a slight bit won't help at all. That and the fact her auto attacks do more than her Q at rank 1 is stupid. The damage needs to be increased, even if It's slight. If I'm going to waste 1,000 mana on the ability every time I use it, it better be doing more than an APC's auto attacks, especially after it shoves the lane in and makes Syndra even more vulnerable to ganks than she is.
She doesn't exist untill level 6, and if you want to build mana for your Q you lack the damage it needs, and ofcourse the other way arround. They buffed her mana per level this patch but it is way too small, you won't notice anything at all.
Maybe, manage your mana with only AA between lvl 1-6, then get some regen mana like morello, grall or both.
I agree with OP and also like Syndra's design but I have never been successful with her.
Her damage seems very low compared to other mids and her mana costs are very high. Contrasting her with characters like YASUO, Viktor, Lux, Zed, Brand, TF, Ekko, Diana or Fizz.... she seems to be saddled with enormous drawbacks; Low defensive stats, no escape mechanism, VERY slow (Brand is 10 ms faster than Syndra for absolutely no reason), high mana costs, high cooldowns and worst of all; Very low damage.
One level 4 combo on Brand will massively chunk an opponent's health... the same goes for Fizz, Viktor and to a lesser extent, Lux... but Syndra pays a greater price, often at worse range, unsafer and at higher mana cost to do what these do with great ease.
Basically; Syndra sucks, I want her not to suck. She is voiced by MAI WAIFU. Pls Roit.
Don't even use Q for anything before it has at least 2 points in it. It doesn't 0 dmg at 1st rank and just chugs your mana. But if you like to spam you can always build 
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They recently buffed her mana per level.
It did nothing. xD
Ahem from aa personal Syndra Mai, unistall......... LOL jk, just harass, dont farm with her abiliies and last hitting with time and wait gives more inconsitent harder to predict harass that is harder to dodge
