Talk:Syndra/@comment-141.136.225.222-20120910032250/@comment-86.148.205.72-20120910174246

Volibear at times is the most frustrating champion to play against. He's also one of my go-to counters to Yorick. Nice Ghouls and Revenant there. E. You were saying? His 1v1 ability is absolutely insane, has pretty strong burst damage and his passive, at times, can absolutely ruin you. So not exactly sure what's wrong with him except that he's underplayed.

Ziggs' passive remains, alongside Orianna's, one of the most infuriating passives in the game when playing a melee or short range mid laner. Gets free damage on AA's that scales of his AP? Oh lord. Yes, his escape is clunky. Neither does Darius, but he's still a strong top laner. Unfortunately, Ziggs loses hard to Ahri and will struggle against Cass, so it makes him somewhat unviable in a meta where those two are very much dominant mid laners.

Varus, I won't dispute, is awkward. I don't like him at all. His laning phase is very strong, similar to Caitlyn, but scales better late compared to Caitlyn, being as his ult and E actually have teamfight presence. You compare the two together, and they're very similar, Varus probably has the weaker lane phase, but the stronger late game. If you say that 'he's bad because Ez, Graves and Corki are all better', well, yeah, that would be because they're the dominant 3 AD carries. You hardly ever seen Vayne played compared to those three, and she's insanely strong. Kog'Maw's shrunk in popularity because of these three. That doesn't make Vayne or Kog'Maw bad carries. They're just no 'the in thing' with the meta atm.

Also bear in mind that Syndra isn't out yet, so she isn't finalised, and considering that Ahri, Zyra and Diana all got nerfs after release, I can understand their hesitance to make a champion that ALSO needs a fairly major damage reduction.