Let's hopefully write a constructive response, and not some rant I go off into. First things first, no, I will not deny she is weak. She is pretty weak right now, but like many mages still good in capable hands. There are plenty of mages that aren't necessarily strong but can still be playable and usable as long as time and effort is put into it (Anivia, Asol, Ori, etc).
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I wrote a dozen of these and will continue until i get a rioter.
Why is it that a champion, designed as lane bully, actually gets bullied in lane by pretty much everyone?
Actually, She probably does a lot better than a lot of mages in lane, and definitely can win some matchups. Yes, she has counters, but pretty much everyone countering her is an exaggeration.
Why is it that, the so-called Press R to delete champion actually can't execute a target with 20% hp and no MR with a 5 ball ultimate, while someone like Lux does more damage with AOE, global spell, and also gets rewarded if she kills you by taking the time of her cooldown.
Well, first of all your R does plenty more damage than a Lux R, even more if you have more balls out, and it's point and click for the tradeoff of not being AOE and having less range. Lux ult on paper is better, but you can't just compare one champions abilities to another without looking at the rest of their kits.
Syndra is the single, easiest champion to kill in league of legends, yet she isnt rewarded at all for keeping alive and hitting those abilities.
She definitely is rewarded for hitting Q's, and your E is one of the best CC's in the game imo.
Her Q is primary damage spell. And while most mages have like 80% Ap ratio on their primary spells Syndra has only 65%.
Yea, but her Q is also on a much shorter cooldown and 65% ap ratio is quite generous for something that's almost a 2 second cooldown with CDR, not to mention more damage rank 5.
And again she has one of the hardest skillshots to land in league of legends.
Won't argue with this, her Q is hard to hit.
Against syndra in lane, you can literally forget the boots as you can see her Q animation and walk out every time. If you have hands she cant hit you.
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same with her E, even easier with her W.
Not really, her E is an even faster Asol ultimate in terms of CC, easily being able to disengage with any melee champions, not to mention it can turn into AOE super long range stun. W is somewhat hard to hit but it's good waveclear and the slow is quite strong.
most mages can outpush her. All mages outdamage her.
Not really, her waveclear is one of the best and her damage is no joke if she's hitting spheres.
Literally everyone. But even that wouldnt be an issue if she brought something other than damage to the table.
Good catch potential, long range AOE stun, slow, consistent damage with Q, easy disengage?
Her kit is designed so she has to build glass-cannon full AP
So are most mages, and she can still buy zhonyas etc.
She has no sustain, no shields, no movement speed. No reliable CC.
Her CC is quite reliable
she has to cast 2 of her spells to CC a champion. 2! that is only seen by Brand in this game. But Brand can go liandrys first item smash head on keyboard and get a penta. What can Syndra do?
She still can CC with one E or W, for two abilities she gets one of the longest range CC's that's aoe.
Press all buttons. Die. While getting outdamaged by support who has 2 levels less and 2 thousand gold less.
Well if you're just pressing buttons and hoping for the best I don't think that's how you should be playing her.
They could literally buff half of her kit like they did to Sejuani, and she would still be mehh tier.
Not quite, and Sejuani changes were more of a rebalance not a straight buff.
Slow on her W isnt even a real slow, its irrelevant.
45% slow lategame is pretty strong, lasts 1.5 seconds too.
Her stun is the easiest thing to miss in this game and even than its not that dangerous when ure cool cuz she cant kill you.
It's super long range and AOE, easy to hit in teamfights. Yea, no.
She needs massive buffs or mini rework,
Not massive buffs, and her kit is still viable enough that she doesn't need a mini rework.
Like get movespeed when you hit Q
Could be interesting.
or killing minions with Q gives part of the mana back.
Yes, this would be nice.
or make the ultimate into some sort of execute, so garen with 50hp cant just press W and survive with 40 hp.
Perhaps, but then damage would have to be lowered if you just use it on a 100% hp target as that would be quite strong of an ability.
Or give her a shield which procs of of some combo or whatever.
Doesn't fit her theme, nope.
Something that isnt braindead but instead rewards mastering the champion and playing her correctly.
She is quite rewarding right now, perhaps not strong but definitely usable. I could see her getting buffed, but you seem to make her out to be kalista tier, and no, she is nowhere near that. Her kit is still usable if played right, and can be quite good when combined with a solid team which is why she's still played a decent amount in LCS. Some buffs and QOL changes would be nice, but nothing much more than that.
