When stupidly ahead. Like a lot of mages can just do a full rotation and out put more damage than her. Unless she for whatever reason gets to be a bully in lane but her mana costs don't really allow her to bully effectively anyway. Not to mention how absurd it is that there are about 5~ items that can just nullify her ult complately or almost completely
waiting for WoW1 votesI'd argue that if anything, Syndra has too much sustain damage for a burst mage, and especially one with an AoE knockback and stun.
BananaSlayerAMO1 votesIn most cases, she can still nuke an ADC without being ahead. She also has a lot of CC, so she isn't completely useless when behind. I'd say assassins have it far worse.
Khristophoros1 voteswhich mages do more in one rotation? show numbers
Frightning1 votes
R, easy to prep 1-2 spheres in fog of war too. Congrats that alone may 100-0 enemy ADC even if you're not fed if you itemize properly.
One full rotation of basic abilities at level 18 is:
Q: 230+65% AP
W: 230+70% AP magic and 46+14% AP true
E: 250+60% AP
Total: 710+195% AP magic and 46+14% AP true=756+209% AP
With no spheres out, her ult is another:
540+60% AP, with each sphere out adding, 180+20% AP. Getting 2 sphere's is easy, even 3 isn't too hard (you can get 4 if you play it well, theoretically 5 with 45% CDR and the 8 second duration but idk if that actually carries through to ult, never managed to do more than 7 sphere ult in a real game myself and that has been only rarely.
0 Spheres out: 540+60% AP
1 Sphere out: 720+80% AP
2 Spheres out: 900+100% AP
3 Spheres out: 1080+120% AP
4 Spheres out: 1260+140% AP
Those numbers are just ult itself, if you add in basic abilities, including landing more than one sphere in the 2+ sphere's out case and you can see how ridiculous her damage output is, raw both burst, and extended combos.
