the Dark Sovereign
Roles and difficulty from the global official site, lane from the China-server official site
| Rank tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Ban Rate | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ranks | 52.4% | 3.2%#20 | 7.8% | B |
| Diamond+ | 51.2% | 6.1%#8 | 18.6% | A |
| Master+ | 51.2% | 6.7%#8 | 22.3% | A |
| Challenger | 50.3% | 7.7%#4 | 42.9% | OP |
| Rift Apex | 52.3% | 8.4%#3 | 48.0% | OP |
The tier list shows Master+ figures by default.
Taken from the in-game loadout screen as of 2026-10-07. The pick count and win rate are shown exactly as the game reports them.
Dash in and finish off weakened enemies
When playing mid and enemies you have worn down tend to pull away and escape
Infinity Orb makes your abilities and empowered attacks Critically Strike against enemies below 40% HP. Those hits deal 20% bonus damage, so enemies you have worn down are easier to finish off. Hextech Rocketbelt brings +250 Max Health and +20 Ability Haste. Its active dashes you forward to close the distance and fires a cone of missiles that deal magic damage, with a 30-second cooldown. Your Magic Penetration totals +48, more than the +33 of build 2.
Block enemy abilities and burn high-health frontliners
When playing mid and the enemy has high-health frontliners or a magic damage carry
Banshee's Veil grants a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability, with a 30-second cooldown. It also brings +40 Magic Resistance, which no item in build 1 provides. Liandry's Torment makes your damaging abilities and empowered attacks burn enemies for 3 seconds. Each second the burn deals magic damage equal to 2% of the enemy's max HP, so it takes more off high-health frontliners. Your damage rises by 2% for each second in combat against champions, capping at 6% after 3 seconds.
The commentary is AI-written. It is cross-checked against this site’s item data and the official lane assignments before publishing.
Max Skill 1 first as your main damage source and sphere generator, then Skill 3 for its Stun and knockback.
Use Skill 1's range and short cooldown to harass one-sidedly in lane. When a gank comes, push it off with the Skill 3 knockback and stun. Holding lane control from the start is Syndra's baseline.
Look for the long-range Skill 1 into Skill 3 stun from out of vision to catch an overextended enemy carry. Collect the passive's Splinters of Wrath to upgrade your skills. This is the phase where your kill threshold rises sharply.
Late game, your single-target Ult burst and the AoE stun that follows make you a mage who controls the battlefield. Delete anyone who mispositions. Then stun the rest together and close out the fight.
In teamfights, snipe the enemy backline over their frontline with Skill 1 into Skill 3. Put every Ult sphere into the most dangerous target. Then scatter the many spheres left on the field with Skill 3 to stun the whole enemy team.
Casting Skill 3 with no sphere on the ground gives only a weak knockback and no stun. You throw away your only self-peel and engage tool. Place a sphere first and knock it with Skill 1 into Skill 3 for the wide stun. Your level 5 Ult also deals more damage the more spheres are on the ground, so keep cycling skills and track your sphere count.
Spawn an orb with Skill 1, then shove it with Skill 3 to stun.
Stun them first, slam the orbs down, then finish with a full-power Ult.
This skill table was checked against the in-game text on 2026-08-15. Changes from 7.2d, 7.3a have been applied from the official patch notes.
| Details | LVL 1 | LVL 2 | LVL 3 | LVL 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooldown | 7 | 6.5 | 6 | 5.5 |
| Cost | 50 | 55 | 60 | 65 |
| Base Damage | 80 | 130 | 180 | 230 |
| Details | LVL 1 | LVL 2 | LVL 3 | LVL 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooldown | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 |
| Cost | 70 | 80 | 90 | 100 |
| Base Damage | 60 | 100 | 140 | 180 |
| Slow | 25% | 25% | 25% | 25% |
| Details | LVL 1 | LVL 2 | LVL 3 | LVL 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base Damage | 70 | 110 | 150 | 190 |
| Details | LVL 1 | LVL 2 | LVL 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooldown | 80 | 70 | 60 |
| Base Damage | 60 | 110 | 160 |
A three-step guide set by the official champion library. For difficulty, a higher number means harder to play.
Critical damage is 200% for every champion. These figures exclude items and runes.
Our take
Every Transcendent threshold now needs more Splinters of Wrath; the last one goes from 120 to 150, so her upgrades arrive later. Force of Will loses 10 points of AP ratio, and its slow is now a flat 25% at every rank: higher at rank 1, lower at ranks 3 and 4.
Our take
Since the mage item rework, Syndra has been left behind by her thin AP scaling. All three abilities get help here: Dark Sphere gains 25 damage at rank 4, while Force of Will and Scatter the Weak each pick up 15 points of AP ratio. She hits harder at every stage of the game, and the two seconds off Scatter the Weak let her push back more often when she is the one being shoved in.
Our take
The extra 0.3 lines the two ranges up, so placing a sphere and then blasting it now works as one continuous motion. Nothing about how Syndra inputs the combo changes, but stuns that used to fall just short simply land, which is a large practical difference. Both her self-peel against ganks and her teamfight openers become far more reliable.
