Can someone explain why Ryze out trades everyone with only Tear+Catalyst?
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Why is this champ allowed to out trade people that build offensive items when he has 35 AP and only mana/HP items?
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Because he's blue so mana gives him power.
Because he scales with mana as his offensive items.
The problem is he does damage by spamming spells, but scales with the same stat that lets him spam more. Tear is supposed to be an early deficit with late game scaling, but he gets a power spike out of it and is never really weak.
because he gains damage from his mana pool
Because Riot insists on keeping all of the "iconic" features of his kit, even though he has been reworked like 6 times.
-Mana damage scaling -Spamable spells -Point and click moderate duration root -AoE damage -Waveclear -Late game scaling -And now his teleport
He has very few weaknesses and most of them are easily bypassed by abusing bad coding/bugs.
Since he scales to late game, he really shouldn't have the early game power that he does. Now don't get me wrong, some people beat him early. But he shouldn't be so strong early.
I feel if they turned his Rune Prison into a skillshot, it'd give him a lot of counter play. He wouldn't auto land all his moves and his spam would be earned.
riot are braindead clueless to balance thats why
His base damage is incredibly high, he will actually out trade you before tear + catalyst as well, he will just suffer mana wise a lot.
Tear is a power spike for ryze because it refunds 15% of mana spent, as well as giving him the other good stats tear gives.
Because he is late game champ, oh wait.
Because it doesnt matter how much mana he has when he gets one shot by Zed, all inned by Cassiopeia, ball slapped by Syndra.
I just had a match against him as gnar. He kills me once and I was shut out of lane completely. I rushed merc treads yet he chunks 3/4 of my health in one combo. I build adaptive next, then spirit visage. It never made any difference. I built pure MR, yet he'd take over half my health in one round. Consistently.
Because he needs an rework. [slayer-jinx-wink]
because riot games balance team is so good at there job
late game champ Who his power spike after 
He's always blue, so they made him always win to cheer him up, :'-(
Because Riot's vision of a "machine gun mage" is a impossible dream.
Because conqueror is a failed rune and Riot refuses to just make it stacking ad or ap which would be good but no it has to heal aswell
He doesn't
Because mages complained they are the weakest class, so Riot listened. Why else do you think AP bruiser itemization doesnt exist? The problem isnt so much him, more so the mage class in general ever since mana resourcing became a joke.