Talk:Syndra/@comment-33536623-20150627104843/@comment-9533487-20150701010348

Not really, the point of level 1 dark sphere is damage--very little else. Many people take the second rank of it at level 3, so generally for only the very short level 2 will you be using rank 1 dark sphere alongside W or E. It doesn't do very much damage at all at rank one, though, and is difficult to land on someone who has practice in dodging it, making the mana cost effectively higher. Even then, the cooldowns on W/E are so long that you just don't use dark sphere for that very often anyway, so it's hard to qualify it as a "dedicated skill booster" or whatever.

Let's face it--Syndra doesn't have any particular strengths other than the mid game, and even during the mid game she isn't terribly effective if she didn't get fed early--which Riot hurt...a lot. She's always going to be fun for me, but with building damage versus assassins+bruiser s= probable difficulty staying alive to win fights. Not snowballing out of your mind versus tanks (or not being able to build damage while snowballing, due to aforementioned assassins) = difficulty killing anything regardless because you're lacking in sustain, sustained damage, and the squishies you want to get to have those tanks to peel for them. Bae's in a bad spot right now :'(