Syndra with Tear of the Goddess

TheUltimateSpear·Dec 19, 2015·1 votes·2,221 views

Okay, so courtesy of a Syndra guide made by a player by the name "DJ Chrispy" I decided to build on Syndra... And honestly, I think it's a better item on her than Morellonomicon or Athene's are. It definitely at least felt rushing into added more damage than Morello's and Athene's would. And the mana sustain on Tear isn't bad either. Syndra has mana problems to be sure, but Tear solved them just as well as a chalice would overall. Of course tear doesn't have chalice's mana regen passive but the base mana sustained me for quite some time, maybe moreso.

The big tradeoff would be the CDR loss. don't have CDR like do. But, the only big problem I found with the loss of CDR was setting up ults was a little trickier, and while CDR is nice, Syndra's a burst mage. She kills her target in one rotation or she doesn't. The only spell she can even hit twice would be her Q.

Discuss?

2 Comments

BonipherusDec 19, 20152 votes

Yeah tear is a decent choice because of her mana costs. The problem though is the lack of effective cdr itemization outside of athenes/morello which means cdr runes are your best solution to remedy this (i prefer 30% scaling). The other thing is that you're probably not getting many more mana items on her. A good plus side is that the mastery that restores 1.5% missing mana becomes much more effective with more maximum mana. I think that, becuase you won't be stacking tons of mana on syndra, that going for a rod of ages might be the superior choice because you will still get tons of mana along with health to keep you alive. Also the sustain from catalyst is really good, especially in lane. You can get both roa and archangels but you will not have a mid game at all and that amount of mana is really excessive and unnecessary.