Talk:Syndra/@comment-26177260-20170128055139/@comment-26808509-20170130161845

Well sure she can, it's her purpose after all. Poking on medium range and nuking a single target on low range. Riot didn't change that and they probably won't in the future, because that's exactly what she does. Changing that fact would leave no reason to pick her at all, because her poke isn't that great, her waveclear isn't aswell, her zoning potential is only created by her oneshot potential and her CC is limited to a high CD knockback/stun.

The nerf was intended to nerf her AoE lockdown with the old empowered W and E, because she could throw 3 balls infront of her and scatter them all over the teamfight to CC everyone in a large cone and that made her way too strong. It almost gave her the status of a disruptor, just like Zyra or Orianna and that's not her intended role. Also, although most people refuse to accept this, Syndra has to prepare her ult for it to deal damage and with the changed W that takes more time and most importantly timing. People are complaining about Syndra being able to miss all her spells, press R and still getting the kill, but if that happens she either is far ahead, you are far behind or it's the absolute late game and you shouldn't be near her as ADC anyways. Cause that's something, people tend to forget, Syndras ult has a pretty low range and if she wants to use it on an ADC, she has to get close enough for every tank to engage on her or she needs to wait for the ADC so screw up his positioning and that happens pretty often tbh. It isn't the job of ADCs to kill a Syndra anyways. It's the tanks job do lock her down.