Talk:Syndra/@comment-4834593-20130722154900

Was playing around with my thoughts a bit (tbh mostly because the Muramana proccing on Syndra's R for every ball), when I had the idea of making a hybrid penetration build, which, on it's turn, was a bit because of this kennen build, which was an interesting mix of AD and AP items (together with hybrid penetration runes) that, apparently, works really well. After a bit of messing around, I had this Syndra build (top lane):

Sorcerers Shoes

Muramana

Trinity Force

Hextech Gunblade

Black Cleaver

Rod of Ages

It's an expensive build, I know, but you wouldn't always need the full items to do well. For example a Sheen instead of a Trinity Force, and a Bilgewater Cutlass instead of a Hextech Gunblade.

Runes are hybrid marks, and for the others, I am actually not sure, but I think that - for top lane - armor seals, cdr glyps and hybrid penetration, health or flat AP quints might be best.

The reason I think this build might work, is because your autoattack is not bad, which means you can really use it, if you want to, also because the range is 550. This means, that you can make good use of Sheen, and Muramana also procs on autoattacks, which is a LOT of damage with 3k mana (which is what this build gives you at lvl 18 with stacked RoA and Muramana (this one doable in under 30 minutes I'd say)). Hextech Gunblade is, I think, a good item because of the sustain it gives and the active (by the way, this build ends with close to 300 AD, so you'll use the life steal quite a bit too), Sorcerers Shoes because they're just crazy strong on a DPS mage (and you also have about 200 AP, which means your ult already deals 220 dmg per sphere, so expect to deal 1100 or more damage from that alone), and Black Cleaver because armor penetration (good for Muramana; every next ball will deal more damage) and cooldown reduction.

I'm also thinking of other items in the build, like Atma's Impaler (you also have ~3k health with this build, and yes, you CAN autoattack a lot if you are just not stubborn and try it for once. Ask Kennen.), which would give you about 45 bonus AD and some crit chance for random "omg" moments when you at once have a 500 dmg crit with a Syndra who can nearly 100-0 a squishy with ult alone (one of the few things you can actually check vs bots...), Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Sunfire Cape (just throwing out a crazy idea here to be honest; it'll most likely suck, and there's no thought behind it like the others), Frozen Mallet (Trinity Force maybe a bad one then though, the decisions, the decisions...), etc.

Any ideas?