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The Power Within - Syndra Guide

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League of Legends Build Guide Author ThePandaEvan

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Runes: Electrocute

1 2 3 4

Domination

Electrocute

Taste of Blood

Eyeball Collection

Ravenous Hunter

Sorcery

Manaflow Band

Transcendence

Bonus:

+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

1 2 3 4

Aggressive

Flash

Ignite

Items

Start

Sustain Start

First Backs

Boots

Mythics

Core

Defense

Against MR

Against Healing

Others

Don't Forget!

Builds

Main Build

Against Tanks

Against Hard AD

Against Hard AP

Snowballing

Ability Order Standard

1 2

Syndra Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

Show All

None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Fizz

Extreme

Harass with Qs and don't get too over-extended because Fizz can all-in you with ease. Save your E for his E. Play safe after 6. Go Zhonyas. If Fizz uses E for your R, you can still use your E.

Amumu

Ideal

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Amumu

Ideal

Introduction

★ About Me
★ Pros and Cons

Pre-Game

★ Keystones
★ Runes
★ Summoner Spells

Champion Info

★ Abilities
★ Ability Sequence
★ Items

Gameplay

★ Early Game
★ Mid Game
★ Late Game

Conclusion

★ Tips and Tricks
★ Credits

Hello I am ThePandaEvan, I am a league player who played in season 8, but didn't really take it seriously until season 9. During the season, I looked for mains for mid lane and I found Syndra. I started to really enjoy her so, I decided to make a guide for Syndra to share my thoughts about her. I am mastery 7 on Syndra. Syndra is a fun champion that is really satisfying to burst people down with.

PROS

+ Insane Burst
+ Good Waveclear
+ Great Teamfight
+ Versatile and Fun
+ Lane Bully

has strengths to her that makes her a powerful pick. has insane burst and she can be very versatile while being fun. excels in teamfights as she has AOE damage and can target an important target with her R. is good at lane bullying her opponents with her quick combos and easy harass. also has nice waveclear.

CONS

- Squishy
- Immobile
- Semi-High Skill Cap
- Relies on Skillshots
- Countered by

On the other hand, has her cons. She is immobile and squishy. also relies on hitting skill shots for damage because 3 of her spells are skill shots. also has a Semi-High skill cap so she is difficult for people to pick up instantly. You can also just her ult and deny a lot of burst.

Electrocute

✦ is the standard keystone for as it allows her to get even more burst. You can proc with three attacks within three seconds. Knowing that, is great for burst trades as with your combo + can really burst someone down.

Arcane Comet

✦ is another choice for . You want to bring if you are focusing more on doing short poke trades. This rune is good when you might not be able to hit three attacks without getting chunked. This is the more safe choice compared to .

Summon Aery

✦ is good against hard melee matchups, where it's hard to land 's combos. Aery helps you do consistent poke instead. also lets your autos hurt a little more. can be better than in matchups where the comet would be dodged easily.

Phase Rush

✦ As naturally has a lot of damage, you can use for more survivability. is good against other users like to match their ms. It's also good against harder assassins that you need to kite away from like . This is also decent against heavy dive comps.


Domination	Sorcery	Prescision	Inspiration


	Domination

Taste of Blood

is the usual first row rune for as it gives her sustain when damaging an enemy which she does a lot as a lane bully.

Cheap Shot

is also a choice if you choose to sacrifice sustain for more burst. What's cool about is that the damage it does is true damage.

Eyeball Collection

gives AP when gets a kill. This rune helps her snowball even more. When you get 10 kills, it maxes out and gives you 10 more AP.

Ravenous Hunter

is the main rune for the 3rd row as it gives you sustain which is good for a lane bully like because you can stay in lane longer to get an advantage.

Ultimate Hunter

As gives you ult AH, it's the best rune for when you think you don't need any extra sustain and want to focus on burst.


	Sorcery

Manaflow Band

is one of the best runes to go for mages. As you will be using abilities that will make your mana go down a lot, gives you extra mana, and mana regen!

Transcendence

is a rune good to go as you get more AH. AH is always good to have.

Absolute Focus

is the rune to go poking as it gives you bonus AP when above 70% health which you will be above most of the time as you are poking.

Scorch

gets activated a lot since pokes a lot. gives you extra poke like .

Gathering Storm

is the rune for late game. It gives you AP every ten minutes. It really stacks up late so its good for scaling.


	Inspiration

Perfect Timing

is perfect when you want to rush Zhonyas as it gives you a stopwatch. You will mainly go this for Assassins.

Biscuit Delivery

is the other main secondary rune for Inspiration for the sustain. This is good if you think you will get poked down a lot.

Magical Footwear

is an option if you want free boots. give you free boots at 12 minutes or faster. It also gives you 10 extra MS!

Cosmic Insight

gives AH. Extra AH is always good as it allows you to use things more often.


	Precision

Presence of Mind

is good for when you have mana problems. This will happen most likely with poking sets.

Coup De Grace

Your enemies will often be low due to your poking so will help your be stronger.

Cut Down

Take when you're against many tanks for the extra bonus.

SUMMONER SPELLS
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FLASH: is the best summoner spell to take as it gives you a free teleport instantly to where ever your mouse is. It's extremely useful on mages like who have no mobility. Take every time. Its offensive and defensive. The usefulness of this spell can be endless.

IGNITE: is the second spell you will mainly take as it adds kill potential and burst. loves both of those things. This helps you get kills, which helps you snowball. allows you to be more aggressive.

BARRIER: is when you are playing against an assassin or a match up you aren't quite good against so you pick . is a good size shield.

CLEANSE: You should bring when they have a CC jgl and mid or a really hard CC. Example: and or just . also removes the damage but, not the healing reduction.

TELEPORT: is useful when you are against a roamer like to match the roam, or against a bad match-up where you can get a free recall and come back stronger.

PASSIVE ABILITY

Transcendent

✦ Each of 's normal abilities gain an extra effect at max rank
✦: Deals +15% damage to champions.
✦: Deals an additional 20% bonus true damage.
✦: Cone width increased by 50%.
✦: Increased range by 75

Dark Sphere

✦ summons a dealing 70/105/140/175/210 (+65% AP) magic damage.

✦ The sphere remains for 6 seconds and can be used by 's abilities.

✦ Range: 800

✦ Mana Cost: 60/65/70/75/80

✦ Cooldown: 4

Force of Will

✦First Cast: Grabs a target dark sphere, enemy minion, or neutral monster within 400 units of range.

✦ Second Cast: Throws the grasped dark sphere or enemy at a target area. Enemies hit by the projectile take 70/110/150/190/230 (+70% of AP) magic damage and are slowed by 25/30/35/40/45% for 1.5 seconds.

✦ Range: 925/950

✦ Mana Cost: 60/70/80/90/100

✦ Cooldown: 12/11/10/9/8

Scatter the Weak

✦ Deals 85/130/175/220/265 (+60% of AP) magic damage in a cone and knocks enemies away based on how close they are to .

✦ Dark spheres within the AOE are also knocked back, dealing magic damage and stunning enemies in their path for 1.5 seconds.

✦ Range: 700

✦ Mana Cost: 50

✦ Cooldown: 18/17/16/15/14

Unleashed Power

✦ 's ult is , using all dark spheres to deal 90/40/190 (+20% of AP) magic damage per sphere to an enemy champion.

✦ This spell will cause the three spheres floating about to become active, dealing a minimum of 270/420/570 (+60% of AP) magic damage.

✦ Range: 675

✦ Mana Cost: 100

✦ Cooldown: 120/100/80

ABILITY
SEQUENCE

1

Q

2

E

3

W

4

Q

5

Q

6

R

7

Q

8

E

9

Q

10

E

11

R

12

E

13

E

14

W

15

W

16

R

17

W

18

W

#1.
UNLEASHED POWER
6 / 11 / 16

#2.
DARK SPHERE
1 / 4 / 5 / 7 / 9

#3.
SCATTER THE WEAK
2 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 13

#4.
FORCE OF WILL
3 / 14 / 15 / 17 / 18

> > >

For ability order priority is: R, Q, E, and then W.

R
When you can, you want to level up your ult first. You get a lot more burst potential as each point in it gives you lower cooldown on your ult and more damage. You also get 75 more range for maxing it out. That increases your damage output by a lot and you can kill people easier by maxing this first.

Q
You max Q second as you get extra damage for each point into it. Once at max rank, it does 20% more damage to champions. The 20% bonus is REALLY good so you want to get it as early as possible so it can give you the extra boost early. This could kill someone that might of gotten away if you didn't get the bonus.

E
You max E next. You get more damage and lower cooldown for putting points into it, but not as much as . The reason you really max next is for the max bonus. When maxed, the cone radius is increased by 50%. 50%! That's half of the range more! This really helps when after you used your ult during teamfights, or have a lot of spheres down in a teamfight, you can use and all of the spheres within the radius will move and stun people.

W
You max W last. It gives you more damage and more slow per point. When maxed, 20% of the damage done is converted into true damage. That's better during late game when your opponents have their armor and mr items. You do more damage as true damage isn't affected by armor or mr.


Starting Items	First Backs	Boots

Starting Items

Doran's Ring

★ is the standard option for because of the AP stats and the mana regen it gives. Take this with two s and a .

Corrupting Potion

★ is a good option against other users, and when you want extra sustain. Take a still as vision is important.

First Backs

Lost Chapter

★ is the main item you are going for, because it builds into , and also because gives you AP and mana. If you don't have 1300 gold on your first back, you can buy the parts of .

Boots of Speed

★ costs only 300 gold, but it gives you a lot of value. +25 MS does a lot, especially because is an immobile mage. It also builds into your tier 2 boots.

Seeker's Armguard

★ When you get this as a first back, you're probably going to rush after . Pretty good item to go against AD early.

Null-Magic Mantle

★ is a defensive option against AP like . When you buy this on your first back, you're probably getting .

Dark Seal

★ is a good option when you're snowballing. It works well when you have because of the bonus gives for potions.

Control Ward

★ Getting a is the best way to stop a gank from working and to gain vision control so your jungler's ganks work. It's only 75 gold, but the usage of it can be much more useful than 75 gold. Never stop buying these.

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes

★ is the standard boots upgrade for because of the magic pen it gives you. Your laner is most likely going to build MR against you so your magic pen will help stop that.

Plated Steelcaps

★ is good against heavy AD/AA teams where the resistance is extra powerful. You can go against your AD laner if they are getting fed.

Mercury Treads

★ is good against heavy AP/CC teams where the resistance is extra powerful. You can go against your AP laner if they are getting fed.


Mythics	Core Items	Situational Items

Mythics

Luden's Tempest

★ is the mythic you will take most of the time. The AP, AH, mana, and movement speed from the passive are all good on .

Liandry's Torment

★You build when there is a lot of tanks. The passive of shreds tanks and would be more useful against the tanks than .

Core Items

Mythic Option

★ Your mythic item is built first. There's two options for you to choose. Both can be core.

Tier 2 Boots Option

★ This is one of the three boots you take. Any of these three boots are core, depending on the matchup.

Oblivion Orb

★ is core for the grevious wounds and also for the fact that it builds into later.

Rabadon's Deathcap

★ is also core since it's another one of your powerspikes because of the 120 AP it gives (not including its passive).

Situational Items

Morellonomicon

★ is a usually core item to go last. has the grevious wounds so you usually don't need to build the full item until last.

Void Staff

★ Usually you will want to build later in the game since of the fact that it has 40% magic pen. Percent magic pen is better when they build more MR, which is in the late game.

Zhonya's Hourglass

★ is best against AD teams, and assassins. The passive of is well worth the gold.

Banshee's Veil

★ is best against AP teams and AP burst. The spell shield is nice to have to negate a spell that caught you out.

Mejai's Soulstealer

★ is best when snowballing due to you getting more AP when you kill/assist an enemy and MS when you have at least 10 stacks of killing/assisting. Try to not die with this item, since you lose stat potential from it if you don't have glory stacks.

Archangel's Staff

★ is good if you are using a lot of mana due to things like clearing waves. It gives you about 500 mana and 360 more mana when transformed into . Plenty of mana for late game.

The laning phase is where can gain her leads. As a lane bully, you will want to be pressuring minions starting at level 1. Make sure to still CS! You will be aiming to Q your enemies a lot. Starting trading with them. The Trading Stance is a good fundamental to have.

Once the enemies are low, you can start looking to all-in. Keep in mind that you still need to think about your and their jungler. Warding will help this. Set freezes when you want ganks. You should push the lane (shove the wave) after you either killed the laner, the laner roamed, when they recalled, or when you are planning to roam, (sometimes when your team is looking to get a drake too). More information of wave management.

Help your jungler with objectives when you can. Though it's not worth running towards drake to help when you are behind. You should either push the wave to the opponents turret, or not help at all. Also, help your jungler in river fights when possible.

During the mid game, you should be focusing on picking people as can catch people out with her Q+E combo. Make sure the side lanes are not crashing on the turret by using your waveclear to push it. Make sure to get your control wards to deny vision so they don't know what's coming.

In teamfights, you should focus your ult on the important carry, which doesn't always have to be the ADC if you can get them. Sometimes you can't get to the backline, which means you can just nuke the frontline instead. Make sure to keep yourself safe by positioning. Objectives are important at this time as they can determine a teamfight. Even you don't need to farm as much, do it anyways. Sidelines are perfect for this.

Having good Macro skills such as splitpushing, 1-3-1s, and objective control, and having good teamfighting skills such as positioning and targeting enemies. Your powerspikes are: When you max your Q which is level 9, when you get , and when you get .

In the late game, falls off, but is still relevant. You should be grouping with your team, not split-pushing. You won't be out-pushing a or a . You should still make sure to clear the side lane waves though and make sure that the split-pusher is stopped.

In teamfights, you should be just using R+E for the massive stun instead of saving your ult. Make sure to keep your carries alive! You can be zoning the mid-laner, if it means stopping the mid-laner from killing the ADC. For objectives, you will be zoning because of your pressure of killing an enemy. That would lead you to most likely win that teamfight/objective because it's a 5v4.

Picks are especially important at this time because that could lead to you sieging and ending the game. You still need vision though as always. You can buy elixirs when you're full build.

✦ For assassin matchups, is your best friend when saving yourself. Save it for when they use their big moves, like an ult.

✦ You can move while using , , and (you can move while the spheres are moving towards your target but, not when you cast the spell for ).

✦ Save your E unless you're trying to all-in, or they're trying to engage/gank you. There's been multiple times where I have used for a combo and then they engaged on me.

✦ Place some spheres down with Q if you think a teamfight is happening or you're zoning so it takes less time for you to stun and it's more likely to hit more than one person with two spheres.

✦ Using , then immediately using makes it very hard to dodge the stun compared to doing Q+E.

✦ has a slow, so if you are having trouble with hitting a Q+E combo, you can use W first so it's easier to land it.

✦ After you use or , the sphere on the ground (3 spheres for R) stays there for 6 seconds.

✦ When you use on a sphere that's already on the ground, the despawning timer of that sphere is reset.

✦ When a Q+E combo hits an enemy, it reveals that enemy, even in bushes.

✦ can pick up enemy pets, like and 's voidlings.

Check out my friends' guides!

My friend NewEleven's guide:
"I AM NOT YOUR ENEMY, I AM THE ENEMY!" - Atrix Guide by NewEleven

My friend Chrisorion's guide who inspired me to make guides:
One Step Ahead! - by Chrisorion

Check out these other guides!
Yeager's Master Syndra Guide
THE ULTIMATE SYNDRA GUIDE! - by Fuzzmonkey

Special Thanks to JHOIJHOI's making a guide as it helped me a ton with making this guide.
Here's the link to that guide:
Making A Guide by JHOIJHOI

Special Thanks to Jovy, for giving me these awesome banners.
Here's his Signature and Banner Shop:
Jovy's Signature Shop

Lastly, a Special Thanks to Katasandra's table coding guide as it helped me fix my rune disaster.
Link here:
A Table Coding Guide by Katasandra