Talk:Syndra/@comment-24496127-20160503230322

Alright, this might actually be the strongest of all the mages that have been updated, especially in the hands of an experienced player.

For anyone who doesn't know, allow me to explain real quick how you'd get the maximum damage out of your ultimate before. What you'd do is get 40% or so cdr, then place about three spheres down, grab the first one you placed with force of will and just hold it (Force of will prevents the duration from going down), then lay out a like one more spheres then ult. With 40% cdr. you could get up to seven spheres for the ult.

Now lets look at the new changes, her Q lasts and additional 2 seconds, and her w can hold up to three balls at once. I don't feel like doing the math on this, but that probably puts you up to at least a possible ten ball ultimate, and that's plausible from level 13. Before the whole seven sphere thing was kind of a fun troll thing simply because your ultimate probably wouldn't do enough damage for the setup required. Now? I can honestly see it being a thing to just get like 12 (Might be pushing it, but my guess is 11 or 12 is the new max with 45% cdr.) balls out and then ult the tanks if a teamfight starts. God forbid she gets to your assassins or melee carries.

Let's just say she can get 11 out, her ultimate will do 1485 + 220%AP. Which is insane, but even disregarding that, her ultimate got a HUGE buff once both w and q are max rank because getting seven spheres will take no only slight effort compared to before. It will still take setup, but honestly I can't see it being difficult if you just carry three with you before going toward someone.