User blog comment:Darksusanoo/(Champion Rework) Syndra, the Dark Sovereign/@comment-24795478-20150729093515/@comment-1920550-20150729141512

The idea is to "destroy" her lane bully identity. As any champion playing against Syndra, it's like playing against an early season 4 renekton. Super destructive in lane, but much less effective in the lategame stages. It's much like the issue with Fiora...her gameplay fantasy pawns her as a grand duelist, who dances and outplays her opponets, yet she's played as a snowball burst assassin and is why she's being reworked. I view that paradigm for Syndra. Her lore and gameplay fantasy revolve around untapped power and unlimited power, but when you actually play her, if you don't snowball her heavily or just go even in lane with her she just reaches a point where she stops being effective...alot of people don't realize this because they crush lanes extremely easy and transition from there to the mid and lategame stages with a massive advantage.

Also the 200 AP% ratio with a stun will most likely only surpass her current burst pattern at level 13 with the 2 AP breakpoints and atleast 2-3 items as at level 9 you'll need the Q bonus for the sphere duration so the stun by itself is actually much weaker than on live pre-level 13. And yes i applied the Kassadin treatment on her of very low base damage and high scaling to invert her power curve.