Syndra Update

Sir Valithor·Oct 3, 2015·5 votes·729 views

So I've been picking up Syndra and have enjoyed playing her a lot. I feel I've gotten fairly good with her myself; however, I keep hearing that Syndra is really weak right now and any tiers or statistics I look at seem to confirm that. I know she is a very difficult champ to play, at least at first, and I wouldn't mind seeing her get a buff or update of some sort. She has received very little outside of some bug fixes since her nerf in 5.1, so I feel she should get a little more of a buff.

My question to you is, what do you feel would be appropriate to change on Syndra that would help to make her a little more viable in game?

3 Comments

RazorexOct 3, 20153 votes

Revert the Q nerfs, she has the worst Q ability out of all the midlaners in terms of damage per mana, and thats not what you want with a burst mage. She basicly uses mana for a mage basic attack. Fix her bugs, she's been out for 3 years and still has so many bugs. Stuns going straight through enemies etc. Make her passive more usefull, you have a much weaker version of Viktors passive. The maxed W and E are barely noticable. Even if some of these buffs happen (Which most likely will not happen since Riot hates buffing Syndra, however Lux and Veigar are completely fine with Riot) she might still get outclassed by other mages, especially in the late game where every other midlaner can deal the same or more damage than you while being safer or having mobility.

A Miss FortuneOct 3, 20152 votes

I think Syndra could be buffed in a ton of different ways. I feel like a way areas they could look at are her core base stats, mana costs, passive, and her Q's base damage. My main issue right now is that unless you're ahead with Syndra, you do no damage at all and she doesn't feel like a late game goddess. When I play Cassiopeia I can notice as the game progresses I have significant increases in power to the point where my E on a .5 second cooldown does over 600 damage + Liandry's + Luden's + Rylai's. With Syndra it doesn't feel like she's a late game nightmare like other AP Mid Laners who have strong late games. She clearly does better late game as she works well with items and her passive pushes for her strong late game, but it just doesn't feel that strong.

Overlord ForteOct 7, 20152 votes

Something like this, most likely: https://www.reddit.com/r/syndramains/comments/3kuppx/musing_on_passive_ideas/

She needs a kit that works for team fighting. Her burst and 'stun pick off' playstyle is the most effective one at current because no other really pays off. There's no fallback pattern or answer to dealing with the frontline that doesn't result in her suiciding pointlessly.