Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-5419934-20121223143249/@comment-4636093-20121224100002

Her late game is her major strength. Don't know where people are getting that she's bad from.

Basically she starts whittling down the front line with Qs before instagibbing the carry with her ult. Low cooldown mages are there for late game, where they can put continuous DPS onto the enemy team. Her CC's pretty awesome too with her AoE pushback and AoE stun (which is granted hard to land, but if they're grouped up in a teamfight you're going to hit somebody).

Syndra is bad for her early game when she doesn't have the mana to support more than a few barrages of Qs. And is the reason she's worse than other low cooldown mages, Karthus, Swain and Cassiopeia have skills to get around mana problems and Ryze builds a shittone of mana.