Talk:Syndra/@comment-24086627-20131127022835/@comment-9533487-20131203153733

It's "common knowledge" that Syndra has the highest possible level 6 ap burst, considering ideal skilling+situations on all mid champions. What people fail to take into account, however, is the CDR necessary to achieve that burst.

It's even easier for people to just forget that because most situations you cannot quite guarantee how many spheres you will have on the field when it's time for you to blow that R cooldown. This often causes what I'll dub the "grail effect", where someone gets a feel for how much damage they think the ult is supposed to do, buys grail, then later gets surprisingly higher damage for not much AP investment, and gives all the credit to how much AP they recently got. Sure, the ult scales well with AP. It scales better with CDR in many situations though.

If you have Season 4's blue buff, a Fiendish Codex, and a blue pot activated all at level 6, you will out damage the enemy mid if you both hit all your skills, no question about that. I'd only try "cheese" like that (and let's face it-it is cheese) though, if I wasn't worried about cc and either

A) knew my damage would take place faster than it takes them to kill me

B) needed to gank a farmed tank toplaner