Spell Vamp + Shield for 2 seconds. Hardly ab-usable early game since CDs are pretty high and mana dependent, but late game Ryze becomes a monster dueler. 2 seconds is hardly enough time to get really good spell vamp so this encourages proper timing and spacing of abilities. Ryze deserves to be a battle mage not a wave clearing, split pushing, running away mage.
Fedoran1 votesyou remember old ryze? the one with spellvamp? theres a reason it got reworked.
DiamondSeed1 votesHis spellvamp wasn't the reason for the rework. It was because of the W reset from his passive.
Fedoran1 votesspellvamp is generally a bad idea because it can turn a battlemage into a pseudotanky 1v5 machine. Current ryze can already have major impact on late game fights and spellvamp only makes that crazier. I would much rather have escape and repositioning opportunities through overload than just raw spellvamp and shields. I dont want to be forced to take phase rush, and even with phase rush the overload speed still helps A LOT.
oh and also ravenous hunter essentially gives ryze spellvamp because all of his spells count as single target, just btw