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Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some valuable Hwei against Syndra counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Syndra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Syndra..
Hwei often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their counter does. Commonly, they receives a similar amount of damage to Syndra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hwei usually loses when taking on Syndra, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Hwei makes a poor counter for Syndra.
While Hwei does have a lower winrate compared to Syndra, when facing one another, Hwei also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hwei into Syndraas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Hwei has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Syndra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Syndra matchups, Syndra is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Hwei is a trash counter for Syndra. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Hwei against Syndra.
To learn all of the intricacies of Hwei to counter Syndra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei on average gets a similar amount of CS as Syndra. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Hwei versus Syndra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Hwei included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better countering Syndra than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Hwei boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when playing against Syndra with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Syndra as Hwei, Hwei players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Hwei vs Syndra fights, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% winrate overall.
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