Syndra Buffs and Soraka visual update "very soon"

Posted on at 1:59 AM by Moobeat
I have two, count 'em two, small red posts for you. One is about the possibility of Syndra buffs and the other pertains to the long awaited Soraka visual update.
Continue reading to check out the two red posts!

Now that we've had a little bit of time to form an opinion on our newest Dark Sovereign, I think some of you might be delighted to hear Phreak mention that Riot is planning on giving Syndra a bit of a buff.  Responding to a fan idea that her orbs deal damage an enemy passes through them, he says:
"Really doesn't make sense for the champion, IMO. She's a long-range mage. Saying, "Actually bro, the best way to maximize your damage is to walk into melee range" doesn't make sense for this champion. Compare to someone like Morgana who has a lot of long-range gameplay, but supports her close range ultimate with Black Shield.

That said, we do recognize that Syndra is weak and we plan to buff her."

I know we are all eagerly awaiting the graphical update ( new default model, new animations and particles, and updated skins ) for Soraka, so I figured I'd drop off the latest post about it from ricklessabandon. He says:
"....we intend to put Soraka's visual update through the typical release process very soon. :3"
While it's not new per say, it's nice  to see a "very" tacked on to that soon. Who else is ready for Soraka's new look and a peek at the new skin that is going to come with it??

107 comments

  1. yeah First!! bout time soraka gets a damn update

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  2. I hope Soraka still keeps her goat/horse legs after the update :( They look cool IMO and make her stand out (other than her bananas and horn, of course).

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    1. ^very creepy indeed^

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    2. ^^ when the creepiness finds u under ur beds... *AHHHHH ^

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    3. ^ it's so creepy, you don't even feel the creeps^ xD

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    4. ^^ SO CREEPY.... THAT THE CREEPS HAVE TROUBLE SLEEPING AT NIGHT ^^

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    5. Guys, I really hope she stays this way too. Nothing to do with creepy, just the way her appearance changed when she fell from grace.

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    6. But she's no longer "fallen" with the new lore. At least not really, she chose to become mortal and chooses to remain mortal. I do agree though, i want her to keep her horn and cottonball hair - and bananas! If they make goat legs look good, then all thebetter :P XX

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    7. I hope they keep her beastliness as well to be honest, she does NOT need to be turned into another porn star. I will quit LoL if they turn Soraka into a bimbo.

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    8. It would be really stupid to change her to a human.

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    9. I'm sure you children can still fap to Soraka with her fawn legs after the update.

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  3. i never understood soraka... half horse, half human... what?

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    1. She's half unicorn \o/

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    2. shes a monkey satyr unicorn

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    3. Everybody loves the magical purple goat star lady.

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    4. shes a lil bit of all of us

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    5. She's a voluptuous satyr.

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    6. It's because she cursed Warwick. Once he was human too, so the spell turned against her.

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  4. Soraka love ? Was about time dammit. She is the oldest champ that only has 2 skins also..

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    1. Dont underestimate the ignorance of the support w/out hot body or huge boobs code! As example. Janna = hot - tons of skins. Sona = huge boobs - tons of skins.

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    2. Taric = hot body - tons of skins. (Just kidding)

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    3. They haven't sent a skin for her because this was coming and it makes no sense to make a skin just to have to re-do it.

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    4. they didnt re-do her for 2 years.. so no excuse for just 2 skins

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    5. Aaaaactually, her latest skin came Nov 2 2010... Evelynn's latest skin came Oct 5 2010.

      GIVE EVELYNN SOME LOOOOOOOVE. </3

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    6. It is pretty egregious that Soraka only has two skins despite being an Alpha-stage champ. And Eve has three skins, while Soraka has two. Clearly, Soraka needs more love.

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  5. Cant believe they noticed Syndra is weak!º

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    1. She's like Orianna. Underestimated and soon going to become very powerful in good hands.

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    2. "soon going to become very powerful in good hands."

      Pfffahahahaha. Good one. Even when hitting with all her abilitys Syndras dmg is pathetic compared to Orianna. Not to mention that Ori has much more utility and survivability.

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    3. Doubt it's going to be damage buffs, more like skill interaction improvements, like how clunky her grab/ throw is- or her scattered orbs missing stuns that should have landed. It's would be great if her passive boosted her skills for every rank in them till they reach the current lvl 5 bonuses.

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    4. She needs a dmg buff if u saw the interview with froggen what he says its true.I played a game with syndra 20 min rabadon and still couldnt 1 shot ad carry,and every other ap carry can do that

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    5. "Player X said..." Froggen could only play her as long as everyone else and that's not a very long time since release. That said she's not a usual ap carry let alone a burst mage. and being able to 1shot a ad carry at 20min is pretty illusionary - What do you lane against, Ashe with 5lvls less than you? You CAN dish out damage with Syndra. It's not really easy and requires a different itembuild than usual ap chars but it's not like all her abilities deal 1 dmg. Jeez...

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    6. Best is if they showed you the path the ball would move with her e's skill shot placement graphics, so show the line the ball would go in if hit by scatter the weak, when she is setting up the ability

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  6. I dont care about Soraka. Im waiting for new look of TF, Sivir, Nidalee and Annie.

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    1. yea, Sivir update > Soraka update imho

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    2. You forgot master yi he also suffers from the horrors of small head triangle feet syndrome.

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    3. Yeah...hope nidalee Will get one soon!

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    4. Yah,they should totally make annie a porn star! :)

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  7. Sounds good, although i did just see a Syndra dominate.

    RECLAIM LOL

    http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=29424469#post29424469

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  8. Happy that they finally noticed that Syndra sucks. Although Syndra is so broken that a few fixes won't help. I would prefer a refund, sadly I already used mine before.

    And still no word about a Nidalee art update ;_;

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  9. No, SHE IS OP, but hard. Try buffing her only in newbie hands.

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  10. Well I don't like the Syndra buff, she's not weak at all and I can own anyone like morgana anyday, pro and Diana are harder (lots of ranged control) But I want to be able to play her and people not say "SHE'S A NEW NOOB OP CHAMP, PLAY SOMEONE THAT TAKES SKILL" at most Is say let her orbs grant vision and make the w not have a cast time that makes her stop

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    1. diana doesnt have any ranged control, wth she is faceroll easy.
      and orianna is so much easier to play after update...

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    2. Stop playing vs. bots then, you have to be completely deluded when thinking she is not heavily outclassed by most other mids.

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    3. She's not weak, she's actually just as strong as the other mids. Before anyone starts telling me I'm wrong, there's a BUT

      BUT

      She needs a massive amount more effort to get the same degree of strength. So if you play her really well, you can stay on par, but you definitely put way more effort. The margin for error playing syndra is far higher than other mids.

      For instance, Annie. She's strong and she's unbelievably easy to land her spells with. There's no real chaining, the only thing to make her technical is her stun, and even that's pretty simple.

      Syndra's got great abilities and she's strong enough, but they all require skillshots and proper combos to deal full damage. It's just not the same.

      Her design mechanics make her more fun for sure, more skill required, but the punishment is more room for error.

      I hope the buffs won't take away the skill barrier, because honestly, that's what i like most about the new champions. They require different playstyles from the traditional champions.

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    4. ^ Someone that understands. Thank you. Usability and a bit more rewarding for skill chaining would be all she needs. No hard number tweaks neccessary there.

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    5. Been playing her a lot and have to agree with jez, you do have to put in more effort to get same as some other AP champs.

      Over all she is i find her really fun it play, throwing stuff never gets old.

      One thing i would like to see is her E updated, leave the current rang for base knock back and damage but add a 2nd part that has same rang as here Q that will no do anything other then knock back orbs

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    6. I tottally agree with Hex but for how that added effort I feel she can bring even more to the table than say, Annie. Most mages like Annie its trade blows and recover from downfalls later with no HUGE reprehensions BUT with Syndra once she starts rolling she seems to exploit mistakes very easily and then Excel later. She is strongest mid game but later she can have the potential to carry. She can bring more to a team than Annie and this is why I think that; 1 not only can she burst a vital Target down she can either stun most of them or knock them away. So this allows her to be able to get her team through the tanks to the dmg. 2 Though she is extremely slow she does bring a lot of escapablity with a dmging slow, a knock back, and if played right and with decent cd you can eventually throw a second knockback in or a stun in under 10seconds and its all AoE. 3 the AoE, Annies AoE is either an ult or in practile melee range, of course ziggs is better with the AoE but utlity wise Syndra is very strong here. And 4 her lane control can really supress other Nids ablity to farm and will hold the enemy back. So yea that's my thoughts

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  11. They go from "soon" to "very soon" and a lot of time has passed. They may as well release this update since the World Championship is right around the corner and they most likely wont release any champs until its finished, that includes Kha'Zix.

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  12. I can't believe they said syndra is weak D: I think they just buffed her cause she's hard to play for noobs o.o
    Hey I'm not pro but that's just my opinion

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    1. Exactly, I never had an issue getting at least 10 kills with her.

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    2. Yeah lets make an extremely weak AP with shitty AP ratios, huge mana costs on everything, low survivability + low range and an Ult that does less dmg single target than most other APs AoE and then call her "hard to play" so that retards think she only sucks because they can't play her right...

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  13. Banana start to evolve... *dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum tadatada tatatadatata. Banana had evolved into MegaBanana

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  14. The graphic update should improve her bananas to be of the highest graphical resolution one could apply to a potassium-rich foodsoure.

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    1. I totally agree, hahahah!

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    2. bananananananananana-batman *cough*-nas comming out of the screen splashing into the faces of your enemies reality? Who. would. say. no. ?!

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  15. Funny how this was announced before summer and now it's almost October lol

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  16. When the orbs disappear,could add AOE damage to improve Syndra's viability as a mid AP mage and be more useful in team fights

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  17. I love how phreak completely missed the point of that suggestion. They weren't talking about the balls that circle her, they were taking about the ones placed by her q. It would make sense if champs took damage by walking through a ball that she has already placed. Not full damage of course, but something. As it is, once the ball is on the field you just have to avoid having it in a direct line between you and her.

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    1. Indeed, they also should stay on the field much longer than 6 seconds...but I am not surprised that they have no clue what to do with this Champ. I smell a Sejuani 2.0 that will be forever bad-mediocre.

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  18. they really need to remake sivir's model...it's the worst

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    1. Not true, Nidalee is the worst looking model right now. Which hurts since she also is the most fun Champ to play, but sadly you have to throw up after looking at her for a certain amount of time. Dem clump feet, dat animations, dat splash "art" *barf*

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    2. Sion has the worst model by far. Id say soraka is worse but her new model is on her way.

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  19. From the thread that they posted long ago, the most voted option was for her to be MORE HUMAN so, they might remove her goat legs(that i dont particularly like)

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    1. They wont, because it goes with her uniqueness. That's like removing Cassi's tail, making all the Yordles into little people, ect.

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  20. no offence but PLEASE stop writing "per say"

    its persé.

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  21. Syndra is really strong in lane phase but I found it impossible to carry heavy teams in games that last more than 30 mins

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  22. Hell yes....my baby is getting buffs

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  23. Along with the Soraka update, can we get human Warwick? That'd be awesome.

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    1. We all hope, but we all hoped for a Cassiopeia before the transformation. At least we got her new skin.

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  24. Why can't Syndra's orbs be used as melee when she is close enough? Anivia switches to her wings when she gets close enough (she used to, IDK if it still works like this).

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    1. Are you sure? Anivia uses her wings already for her auto attack, you may just be getting that confused with an actual animation change.

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  25. The character is so broken that only a complete remake could help, not some little buffs. They should just admit their failure and give everyone who bought her refunds and forget she ever existed.

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  26. Tbh I really like her design (art/model wise) so It'd be a shame if that'd go to waste. Especially her release skin looks awsome (As release skin Diana but we know what happened...).

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  27. ^ Nah. I've managed to win games with Syndra pretty easily. She just needs a bit more movement speed, a small AP ratio buff, and a bit more range on her E.

    Don't try to pass off your inability to use Syndra as Riot's failure.

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  28. My bad, make that ^ from the previous post into ^^.

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  29. What I don't understand is why ashe got model reworks on litterally everything before soraka and sivir, who are arguably worse off, and when people wanted a soraka remodel. I mean, no one was really asking for ashe to be redone.

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  30. Soraka will most likely look more or less like the Chinese art, since that is the direction that Riot has been going with champion remodels. So I honestly don't know why there was a poll, and if the poll is actually valid, she WILL look more human since that option received the most votes. I just want her remodel to come so I cans tart playing again. I kinda boycotted LoL till her remodel came.

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    1. Yea it sucks goat legs will be hidden by the dress

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  31. With her "scatter the weak" they should show you the line the ball would move in as you set up your E and it would show you where it would go dependent on your positioning.... Kinda like how LULU's q works except without the 2 line bikes but the one line nuke and an AoE

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  32. After reading the comments i realized something...

    No one Cares about Syndra;
    Everyone is exited about Soraka's Rework! :D

    With all of this OP champs, we need to have a op support... There's no op supports arround, in fact, supports are underpowered... ^^ I don't care that much about soraka's new model, only with her new gameplay mode. Make it op like the new champs that came out and i give you all lots of cookies :D

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  33. SiON MODEL UPDATE WHERE?

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  34. Sivir needs the Remodel just as much as Soraka. Actually in my opinion she needs it more.

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  35. Yes! Been waiting for a Soraka update for so long, she looks terrible and in much need of a makeover!

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  36. I hope Divine Soraka looks more like the art!

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  37. The only buff i'd like on Syndra is that her orbs grant vision in bushes. I don't play ranked, but in normals i managed to lose 2 games out of 12 and those were loses because of afkers.

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  38. Syndra is really bad atm.

    Boost AP ratios by lot. Remake W to make Vacuum like Dark Seer had in Dota, that pulls Orbs and Minions. Maybe even champions.

    E should get little more range so you could aim better with it. Also some line perhaps to show possible flight road when shooting Orbs.

    R needs bit more rage and Orbs need to last a bit longer.

    These and I wont regret my purchase.



    Btw I couldn't care shit about Soraka visual update but I guess I wouldn't mind either.

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