This is just dumb

https://puu.sh/wDiJ5/a0e7d1f11c.webm

Rakan had Ivern's shield and his own shield and still died. If you put almost any other champion in that situation Rakan would've actually had a chance to play the game there, but because her ult is targeted there's nothing he can do. Once she presses the R button there is no stopping it. You can flash, dash, heal, etc. all you want, but you are going to get hit by that massive nuke and there is nothing you can do about it. The whole reason Syndra is picked so much in competitive play to begin with is because the monstrosity that is her ult is so stupidly reliable at killing priority targets. When an Assassin or other champions are too reliable at killing priority targets they get nerfed immediately, but, for some reason, Syndra gets to be the special snowflake.

Aside from a few, no other champion has guaranteed damage like this. Put any Assassin in that situation and Rakan could've survived because he would've been able to dash away and outplay the damage, but because it was Syndra there was nothing he could do. There is nothing fun or interactive about getting all of your health taken away by a targeted ability that cannot miss while being out of your opponent's reach.

It doesn't matter how fed Syndra was in that clip. Just the fact that she can do that much targeted damage from a safe range while barely interacting with her opponent at all is very bad design. She basically has pre rework nidalee spears only they're targeted. It's really dumb and not fun to play against.