Why is does Syndra get to be such a safe to play champ?

The Soraka·5/1/2014, 6:35:45 AM·1 votes·594 views

Really.

Her kit is fairly overloaded, to the point where she doesnt NEED a flash, because she can just knockaway anyone who tries to get on her, and usually stun them in the process.

Her stun is also pretty much unavoidable as it moves to fast to dodge, it can only be missed.

Syndra seriously needs some nerfs, she doesn't see alot of play but everytime she's a complete bitch to fight against, as she's "untouchable".

She's Malzahar if Malzahar had no risk involved.

4 Comments

SirTezla5/1/2014, 10:55:53 AM2 votes

I don't believe that Syndra is really safe, if she uses her E for poke/harass that leaves her quite screwed on incoming ganks for the next 12 seconds. Being a Syndra lover, I think that her kit is fine and needs no changes.

Sir ArmaMalum5/1/2014, 3:00:44 PM2 votes

--Her Q is actually fairly easy to avoid after getting boots

--Her W has a decent range but is more if a combo maker than a pure damage ability, everything else has a fairly short range.

--Her stun is not meant to be dodged by reaction, it's meant to be denied by positioning. If you have a sphere in between you and her of course she's going to use her stun. However if you stop that from happening it will be much harder for her to stun you.

--Most of her power is locked until she maxes an ability, so her early game should actually be fairly weak.

--She is hard to catch with a melee champ, sure, but that problem is had by almost all mage champs. Syndra is not different from Orianna, Ryze, Karma, and so many others when it comes to being 'untouchable'. They all have a close range, easy to land cc that you have to work around before being able to close the distance.

Overall, my best advice is to play her. If you win every game and have easy games always then yes her kit's overloaded, but I'll bet you'll have some games where you don't do as well and you can use those games to identify where and when she is weak and vulnerable.

Cerbearus5/1/2014, 2:46:29 PM1 votes

She has some really low range, which is compensated by high damage and low cooldowns. Keep in mind 3 of her skills are skillshots and her ult's power is gated by how long you have been in combat.

You are complaining that a hard burst mage/duelist can out-duel most people? Syndra in a teamfight works like any other burst mage and blows 1 person up, then she has nothing left and dies because she has 0 mobility.

HazeyInDaHead5/1/2014, 6:18:52 PM1 votes

Uhm.... Syndra's entire kit is practically negatable.

I played a Talon V Syndra ( good one too because it was still tough)

You wait for her to summon a ball, now she cant stun you from forever away...

Or you uhm... dodge? the skill shots that all of her kit but her ult is.

As Talon you learn to dodge skillshots pretty quick or just feed.

Once you learn to juke her moves by zigzagging, all you need to do is jump her when she doesnt have a bunch of spheres to ult you with.

Done.

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