Teamfighting/Positioning as Ryze

First of all, thanks to everyone who replied to my other thread, I'm no longer a spastic maniac.

But now that that's out of the way, I can start looking at the big picture: poor teamfighting. I've started playing everyone's favorite blue man, Ryze, and I really like him. His kit is fun, he's very flexible, and in lane he's very hard to counter, which, due to his poor laning/mana issues, results in him going even with pretty much everyone.

Now laning is a problem for me just cuz I suck at CSing, but that'll come with some practice. The main problem is my positioning in teamfights. I'm always too squishy mid-game against a team of carries/juggernauts (low elo, ofc) and my range is too low to sit in the backline. Therefore, I have to sit my weak blue self in the middle of a fight to start dealing damage and I die really fast. If I can land Flux on a bunch of people, teamfight's pretty much over since I'll nuke them with an Overload crit.

However, I always die. How can I fix this? Is it just an issue of not enough farm? I know Ryze gets really tanky with the combo of Frozen Heart/Abyssal Scepter and RoA, but I can never get there when mid-game teamfights happen. I attempt to flank with Realm Warp, but I still die.

Anything I can do differently???? Check out my match history if you have to, I have 2 recent games from this morning and last night.

Thanks!

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