Pick-and-angle-control mage build: Syndra wins when she turns neutral space into forbidden ground, then converts one badly placed target into immediate advantage. The build must therefore preserve range, rotation reliability, and setup safety.
Standard build maximizing damage output. Use on neutral matchups or when ahead.
15,100 total cost
Nothing dominates on the other side: the standard build maximizes your damage.
Open this draft in the tool →Anti-resist build for tanky enemies. Choose when multiple enemies build armor/magic resist.
14,500 total cost -600gDefensive build adding survivability. Pick this against high enemy damage or when behind.
15,000 total cost -100g
Share of the roster this champion outclasses, at each stage of the game.
50% = average for the roster at that point of the game, 90% = among the strongest. The three phases come from the site's editorial tempo grid (early/mid/late, rated across 142 champions); the level-by-level curve adds this build's computed spikes — ultimate, completed items — never by more than ±8 points.
Your hardest matchups in this role, and the item from your situational list that answers each one.
Same advisor in the Draft (the MVP sheet applies it to your real draft) and in Ask Nexus, which explains the choice. On counters pages: the variant to take against each counter-pick.
Skill leveling order and rune choices explained, from our in-depth kit analysis (patch 7.0e). Ability numbers are from patch 7.3; up-to-date items are in the section above.
Syndra creates value through quick picks, not extended fights.
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Tap an ability for its per-rank numbers. Source: official Tencent data (Chinese server), patch 7.3 — may lead or lag the global server by a sub-patch.
Q Dark Sphere poke at long range initiates First Strike for gold constant.
Free gold on rotations — every plant advances the AP core that makes your R lethal.
Reduces cooldown of the R Unleashed Power to trigger more often his execution burst.
The burn fires on every poke Q — your pressure drains opponents toward R's execute threshold.
Discourages assassins — burst crashes into blunted hits while your E stun answers.
Gathering Storm
Bone Plating
Gathering Storm
Giant Slayer
