Should You Main Syndra? Tier C
Syndra is tier C for maining, around the middle of the game. 11 Challenger and 20 Grandmaster mains across the three major regions, on 879,780 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Syndra scores 3.26 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 3.26 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 11 Challenger · 20 Grandmaster · 149 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 879,780 games played worldwide · 9.55% pick rate · 7.46% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
This is one of the classic champions. When picking between Syndra Orianna, you can play both. They play somewhat similar.
But yeah, you're just kind of a control mage. 11 challengers, 20 grand masters, very competitive champion. 7.5% ban rate and 10% pick rate.
So, you're going to see her a lot. Tomkins is actually one of those champions on next up is that it's going to be very bad to main.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.