Alternative syndra nerfs (discuss)

The steam life·8/7/2017, 8:51:00 PM·1 votes·307 views

So Riot I know youve been trying to make lore connect to gameplay so im here to give my two cents. Syndra should be a scaling champ not a lane bully. Her kit has so much poke and burst potential early game and in exchange for letting her have that you are testing nerfing syndras scalings on pbe. DO NOT DO THIS. Syndras entire lore is centered around her ever growing power, that she figured out her powers were being dampened purely because she was not used to her powers growing slowly. She should have an average early and scale to late so that she will be more of a conditional pick in lcs and will have (maybe) a small buff for her late game to compensate.

Im gonna go into some lore here so if u dont want to read ill add a tl;dr. So in syndras lore she was sent to a teacher for her reckless use of power and her unwillingness to control it. While it says she learned much she killed the old mage before she could fully learn to control her power so as it shows in her gameplay she doesnt know how to fully control her power. She can grab something to throw, condense energy throw out a cone of raw power and throw her orbs at a target. Compared to someone whos a master of magic like ryze whos abilitys have incredible effects and variety she doesnt know much.

Tl;dr limitless pwer

But she has more raw power than pretty much anyone else as it says she grows more powerful each day and her power is limitless. So the current meta for lcs has people picking champs that have a strong early or are chogath and scale decently to late. If she was weaker early she would be a less contested pick and there would be more variety.

So hers my ideas dont implement all of them though if you plan to do this. So either her q or r could have scalings similar to rivens q with scalings that go from 65-80 and her bases get nerfed by five damage per level so youd have to max it first but she would be doing way less early damage with the same late damage. If you decide to change r nerf her base by like 10 per level and make the scaling like so level 1 17% per ball. Level 2 19% and level 3 23%. So she would be weaker again early and mid but slaughter late game. Alternatively to her having the q change be per level you could tie it to the passive so at level 5 she gets 80% scaling but for the first 4 levels have 65% scaling. Id rather have the per level though.

The reason I want this change is it's just be weird for a champ whos passive, ult, and entire lore are centered around her gaining power and the nerf would to be to hurt her scaling while buffing her bases. Imo she shouldnt be such a lane bully and not really gain much power throughout the game.

Ultimate Tl;Dr Give q or r the riven q treatment cause her lore is limitless power.

So if you have any other ideas please discuss.

2 Comments

Blades of Navori8/7/2017, 9:44:19 PM1 votes

Or don't nerf her because she's fine.