Talk:Elise/@comment-41.105.79.209-20121107101825/@comment-4167645-20121107192220

Syndra did suck when released. I could play her, but the tradeoff for playing her didn't warrant the sheer difficulties you face when using a Syndra ie. balls freezing in mid air, balls failing to stun, low individual damage per ball, running out of mana and so on. People knew you didn't do tremendous damage, and thus those like Katarina and Ahri can freely dash in confident that you can't damage them enough before they kill you.

Now that they fixed her bugs and buffed her ratios, people are actually wary of the balls, and this means Syndra now has lane presence. Without those, you're better off playing Orianna, because there is no way 60 damage for 50 mana at lvl 1 is worth it.