Show a little more care for Syndra please
I have been a Syndra main since the day she was released and have seen her ups and her downs, and right now I am just seeing a constant downward spiral. Now this spiral isn't necessarily bad in the eyes of other people, since she's been flavor of the month, but it has for many other Syndra mains alike. Ever since the Mage update, I have stopped playing her nearly as much because she lost her flavor for me. I liked the ramp up of power you could feel and it felt satisfying performing her ultimate with so many spheres.
That is gone.
Now, anyone and their dog can play Syndra to good effectiveness. They lowered her skill floor and skill ceiling with her update because it is so easy to stack up spheres. Her ultimate, which is currently being nerfed on PBE, is not her problem and never was her problem. Her problems right now are bloated scalings and of course, how easy she was made to play. What kept her from being overpowered previously was the effort it took to maintain a six or seven sphere ultimate... when you actually needed proper thought to play her.
The core of Syndra's gameplay for me was the amount of thought you had to have in keeping up with not only the amount of spheres you had, but where you positioned those spheres. She was all about tempo. Building up power to unleash it in a massive scale. What felt so satisfying was maintaining the six spheres to deal loads of damage - because it actually took skill to maintain them. The art of mastering her was so satisfying and rewarding because she played differently than other mages at the time. She required good tempo and this background play of ramping up in power.
Then they added her new W passive, which makes it so much easier to not only land that ability but also to land her stuns. Any competent player - and even the not so competent players - can play her just as effectively as anyone else can because players are now spoon fed spheres left and right. The Q passive is honestly manageable because it allows Syndra to not be forced to build CDR, but her W is just terrible and needs a change. You do not have to keep track of the amount or where you place them because of this passive. If we change the W and how it functions a bit and maybe even lower the bloated scalings a little, she will be a lot balanced and healthier. Just please take some consideration when handling her. Do not take the lazy route.
Thank you.
TL;DR - Adjust her W passive so it does not make her so easy to play effectively, lower her bloated scalings just a tad. Do not nerf her ultimate.



. I can barely play him now in the ADC position. Everyone complains about him AP so I don't know what to do anymore ;-;
, who's only gotten his W kinda-sorta nerfed so far. (inb4 someone tells me his Q is losing silence or his E/R durations are being gutted in PBE).