Syndra's Power and Potential is being Shackled!

Perma CC··6 votes·1,939 views

For a Champion that is supposed to have immense power and infinite potential... it's sad to see Syndra in such a poor state as is. At the moment it feels like we are playing a Champion that doesn't live up to her thematic goals. It's not even that she is just merely in a balanced state... no at the moment she is actually weaker then an average, balanced state. Prior to the mid year mage update, Syndra was in a horrible spot... but guess what... she was actually stronger then she is currently. When she was buffed in mid year mage update, her kit broke and thus she obviously needed nerfs... sad thing is she was over nerfed into being worse then she was prior to the update. Her Q lost damage base and ratio, her W lost ratio and spell width and her ultimate gained cooldown. I feel like alot of these nerfs need to be reverted now that Syndra's mid year mage update has been reverted. The thing that broke her was her access to holding 3 spheres with w, which has been removed, and her longer duration q's which made max sphere ultimates extremely easy to pull off. On top of that the meta favored her at the time. But people actually build tanky now, Stopwatch exists, Nullifying Orb exists as well as Maw and GA. Syndra is supposed to be a lane bully and she doesn't feel like it... when you compare her to lets say Cassiopeia whom has a similiar harass ability in Q which Cass's has more range, more scaling and base damage and a shorter cooldown. It's really just sad.

Syndra needs to be buffed... I dont think in damage... but in survivability, if she wants to compete in the current meta or in general. Out of all the stuns in the game her's has the longest cooldown and doesn't compete anymore with mages that have recently had their cooldown reduced on their self peel ability. Lux Q, Ahri E, Taliyah W< there are other mages... but they all have short ass cooldowns now. Syndra's still remains at 16 seconds. You could compare her to Veigar and even he has a shorter cooldown because his E cooldown begins the second you place the box, so its about 12 seconds along with all the other mages currently. The buff I'd like to see on syndra is her E cooldown reduced to 12 seconds at rank 1.

Stop shackling her greatness! Syndra would not allow this... right now it feels like she is literally being restrained... and it completely clashes with her lore and thematic identity... especially when she is NOT in a even balanced state... but instead in a very weaker then the average mage state.

#FreeSyndra #IWillNotBeRestrained-SyndraSyndra

10 Comments

MrHaZeYo7 votes

I agree,

Dog of Pavlov2 votes

I check PBE every day to see if she gets some help :(

Perma CC1 votes

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I check PBE every day to see if she gets some help :(

Riot said they are buffing her... its just a waiting game at this point. They said this patch... still not seen anything.

Dog of Pavlov1 votes

IT'S THERE HALLELUJAH!!!

Perma CC1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Dog of Pavlov,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=gL9z1WaG,comment-id=000100000000,timestamp=2018-07-25T00:19:00.464+0000)

IT'S THERE HALLELUJAH!!!

YEP! AND IM HAPPY ABOUT IT!

wildfox991 votes

i played her and she doesn't seem to be that bad...not talking directly to you,but as long as you hit your combo you still deal an insane damage,if you miss don't expect to R ignite your enemy because it's just unfair

maybe a little buff could be ok,but she's not that trash as many say and actually she's pretty decent

Perma CC1 votes

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i played her and she doesn't seem to be that bad...not talking directly to you,but as long as you hit your combo you still deal an insane damage,if you miss don't expect to R ignite your enemy because it's just unfair

maybe a little buff could be ok,but she's not that trash as many say and actually she's pretty decent

Ive been playing syndra since her release.... she really is not in a good state... Like. Her Q doesn't do enough damage for how much mana it costs and how difficult it can be to land especially in comparison to champions with similiar harass abilities. her E has too high of a cooldown and her W at max rank costs 100 mana that of an ultimate and is super hard to land with its delayed ass toss animation and its now small af hitbox. Her ult has too high of a cooldown concidering she is balanced around that being her main thing. Its not easy getting off max sphere ults anymore so she needs more opportunities to use it. Also if she doesnt burst someone with ult she is basically kinda useless. Im not asking for damage buffs... im asking for Surviability... Utility something that she can do when she isnt able to one shot someone. That is why i want her E cooldown reduced so she can just fall into being a peel mage if she isnt able to do damage. She is the only mage that has a 16 second cooldown on her self peel... its not reasonable for being a two part spell that requires 2 abilities to use.

wildfox991 votes

i disagree about her Q,its damage is quite good if you consider its CD and is not even that hard to land compared with some mages ablities

about her W mana cost it's totally true,recently i started playing her with item 3003 because i would run OOM in a few combos,it should cost 20/25 less mana

her E is quite hard to balance...if they give it a low CD it would be a pain laning against her if you are not a long range mage (her Q E is nearly impossible to dodge and have a really long range),but after the laning phase 16 sec are too much how does it sounds giving it like 12 sec CD at lvl 1 but heavily increasing its mana cost while while buffing her W mana cost? (ie. +30 mana cost on her E but -30 on her W) it could make her E more useful in mid game without allowing her to spam her it in lane

Tacosrock1 votes

I personally don’t think Syndra is that bad right now. She has obvious moments of vulnerability but also many chances to burst someone down. Lowering her E cool down would make her a huge lane bully because she could have more kill pressure with her stun, which would probably make her really strong. The only thing that she truly needs is higher base hp and maybe mana. Her damage is strong but not overly strong. She has clear weaknesses and strong points. No reason to break what’s been given to us.

Jeiku1 votes

Riots classic philosophy.

  1. Buff
  2. Over Nerf
  3. Forget about champion

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