Yeah she's awful right now unfortunately. :( Recommend staying well away from her until she receives buffs.

I'm getting kinda mixed signals here

Yeah it's okay if you want a defensive summoner.

Rylai's isn't viable on Syndra anymore, the other 2 you can read about in the item section of the guide. If you have Ornn on your team you almost never get to build the upgrades anyway since you only want to get them once you're already full build. But in case you do actually make it that far into the game, I would personally build the Rabadon's upgrade first, but sometimes build the Zhonya's upgrade first instead if I'm facing a lot of AD that the extra armor can be worth it.

That's Azir for you. He can't move while using Q + auto-attacking with his soldiers though, so you can try and punish him with a QEW when he goes aggressive. As cancer as Azir is it's definitely a Syndra favoured matchup, since especially after level 6 if he gets caught by this combo he's as good as dead.

Whoever you can that isn't a tank basically. Ideally you would want to cast it on the enemy ADC or mid laner, but that requires them to get too close and you don't want to hold onto your ult too long waiting for a perfect moment that'll never come. Kill the Lee Sin, kill the Elise, kill the Kha'zix, kill the Rengar... Just use it on anyone who presents any kind of threat who will easily die to/with help from your ultimate. But also make sure not to cast it on someone who's about to die anyway whether you cast your ult or not.



As with most mages/carries you'll want to position yourself in a way that you can damage the enemy frontline without taking too much damage yourself. You can briefly position more aggressively if a good opportunity to ult a carry shows up (such as if you stunned them with Scatter the Weak), especially once you have Zhonya's Hourglass, but this should be momentary and not your standard positioning.



It's quite simple. You spam her Q to get as many orbs as you can out. But obviously her orbs don't last long enough on the ground for you to get a 7 orb ult just like that. That's why you have to grab the first orb with Force of Will and hold it for a few seconds; the duration of the orb will be frozen until you actually throw it. I'm not sure how long you can hold an orb for, but just hold it as long as you can before throwing it, and keep spamming Dark Sphere off cooldown as well. With enough CDR (not sure on the exact amount, but it doesn't have to be 40%), you can have 4 orbs laid down in time for your ult.

It isn't terribly practical though, since the damage you get from the last orb isn't as much as the damage you get from using Force of Will for damage. There are situations when you have the opportunity to set it up naturally, but you shouldn't go out of your way to do it.

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