Syndra Syndra Syndra
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? 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. 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. Her Q is primary damage spell. And while most mages have like 80% Ap ratio on their primary spells Syndra has only 65%. And again she has one of the hardest skillshots to land in league of legends. 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. same with her E, even easier with her W. most mages can outpush her. All mages outdamage her. Literally everyone. But even that wouldnt be an issue if she brought something other than damage to the table. Her kit is designed so she has to build glass-cannon full AP She has no sustain, no shields, no movement speed. No reliable CC. 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? Press all buttons. Die. While getting outdamaged by support who has 2 levels less and 2 thousand gold less. They could literally buff half of her kit like they did to Sejuani, and she would still be mehh tier. Slow on her W isnt even a real slow, its irrelevant. 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. She needs massive buffs or mini rework, Like get movespeed when you hit Q or killing minions with Q gives part of the mana back. or make the ultimate into some sort of execute, so garen with 50hp cant just press W and survive with 40 hp. Or give her a shield which procs of of some combo or whatever. Something that isnt braindead but instead rewards mastering the champion and playing her correctly. Edit : Go on downvote me, all of you that got deleted once in season 6 or 7 by one decent Syndra.
And some outdamage her in sustained dps.
Except maybe Lissandra who serves as CC lockdown machine and maybe Twisted Fate who is a glorified support.
She has to build glass cannon but isnt rewarded for building glass cannon. Nowhere near enough.
Also without a stun knocking back someone for 400 units isnt gonna do much since she has second lowest mobility in the game. Matched only by Anivia's 5 less movement speed. But then again compare how hard it is to kill Anivia to how hard it is to Kill Syndra. Also Lux has equal mobility to Syndra but her CC spell has no actual cooldown, she can also build Lich Bane and get movement speed from it.
There are some other with same base move speed but they all either have mobility spells like Gragas does, or always build items that give movement speed.
I agree that she doesn't "need" shields, bonus move speed or sustain IF she gets damage buff but then everyone is going to cry and get all delusional and biased about her damage so maybe she should get power from other source other than pure damage.
Brand with Liandry's Torment WILL outdamage every other mage in the game, in every 5on5 teamfight and he doesnt give a damn that he is 2 or more levels behind and doesnt have Deathcap or whatever the midlaner has bought.
The only way Syndra can work in teamfight is if she has 2 big CC tanks to frontline for her so she can DPS from safety. OR if she has extremely good, and extremely fed adc which she can protect with her E. Other comps tend to leave her hanging every single time.
Easier champion? She isnt that hard shes just bad. Unrewarding.
I can make even harder champions work but only can't make my main work? Isnt that kinda suspicious?
Her slow is 25% until level 14 when i becomes 30% and at that time you literally have champions that can be slowed for 30 % and still faster than her.
With 10 buffs like Sejuani got Syndra would still be mehh tier. You called bullshit on that.
I was kinda overexaggerating there but still she would fall short to the power someone like Lissandra brings to the team.
And the last statement i'll just have to take as meaningless insult, since i do in fact know quite a bit about all of league's champions, and their respective places in the game.
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Meaning its usually around 10 seconds at max rank. And she is the second slowest champion in the game.
And i will meme this a bit because its worth a meme.
You can get knocked back as Darius. Stop for a recall. Ghost from base and still catch her before she retreats.
You get the picture?
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and she was awful to have to try to catch despite her never even trying to dodge my q....It wasn't like she had cloud drake or an upgraded boot advantage (no swiftees or mercs to reduce my slow)
and what not else.
The only thing that comes to my mind is that she had 
Which does give 10% movespeed and up to 50% movespeed on activation. Other than that one legged grandma can stick on to her.
where too much power in her kit is for things that you don't need (consistent slows when everyone has dashes), syndra doesn't need to bully an immobile melee in order to win midlane yet she is almost specialized for it and being reliably safe against immobile melees.