2 picks I don't understand why they are popular: Ryze mid and Fizz jungle (AP)

YumaS2Astral··1 votes·689 views

Suddenly people started to play a lot of Ryze mid and Fizz jungle but it's AP Fizz.

I would like to ask if those picks have been used on the Worlds because due to some problems I didn't had time to watch the last Worlds games.

As far as I know, Ryze has always been considered a mediocre pick for mid due to his low range, and as for Fizz, he indeed is a good AP jungler, but he has never been popular as an AP jungler before, and even when he was a popular jungler, he was used as an AD champion. (I still often use Sated Devourer AD Fizz or Runeglaive AP Fizz, that depends from whether my team needs an AP or a bruiser)

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NemeBro3 votes

People are picking Ryze mid because Faker played him at Worlds.

Nothing more, nothing less.

YumaS2Astral1 votes

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People are picking Ryze mid because Faker played him at Worlds.

Nothing more, nothing less.

People just love to copy pro players

Canidae1 votes

This was how I got into playing Ryze to be honest, but what really sold meh was the pure buttonmashing I got to do. It's hard to get that thrill of knowing that whether or not you'll live or die depend on how good ur rotations and movement mirco is.

Plus he's a solid peeler and not ur typical "squishy mage."

I actually don't run him mid that often though, been trying out him top and jungle (in normals, atm)

UNSC1 votes

Ryze mid is because he has incredible burst potential, fizz idk

YumaS2Astral1 votes

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Ryze mid is because he has incredible burst potential, fizz idk

Having incredible burst potential is not enough to make a pick popular.

Talon has one of the highest burst potential out of all assassins, and although he is not Yorick-level forgotten, he isn't nearly as popular as Ryze mid currently is.

The same applies to Syndra, her burst potential is incredible even after the nerfs, but even then, she is not popular.

Dr Nuka Cola1 votes

Syndra suffers from quite a few bugs despite the sweep they did to fix them though which adds to her not being played much as shes not as reliable.

Dr Nuka Cola1 votes

So yeah faker = ryze, and for fizz I'd say its because he can chase a gank really well and has decent damage.

TheLastShadow451 votes

I played Ryze mid before faker ever did.

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