Dunno, why you can't just force a fight early on
ryze is ranged so 70% of toplaners will fail to get close, not to metnion actualy killing him
Ryze's early game is a joke
damagewise- yes
safetywise- no
and he gets his ass kicked by nearly every champion.
if they have 2 gapclosers, one to get close, second to get close after his w ends
ryze despite being a weak mage, is actualy insanely abussive toplane, toplaners cant realy trade with him because all he does is disengaging and farming, his items naturaly counter toplaners and he outsceles them
i think that gnar would work, ryze has low sustain so bomerangs would hurt him, besides that jayce could do it early but later he would have a hard time
some other guy said that lane swap could be good but its also a bad idea, some toplaners just cant deal with ranged champions so they can faill on mid, while some midlarens are easy to gank on toplane (midle is the safest lane) so enemy jungler might make that ryze fed as fk