With the new changes on 5.14 Ryze can now really really hypercarry...

LordR4in·7/22/2015, 2:07:44 AM·1 votes·1,010 views

... the trash out! He does zilch damage with the ap ration nerf on his bread and butter. Now lets wait another 6 or 8 versions until they bring him a bit back again. Now he doesn't scale off mana decently, nor does he scale of AP decently. All I am left is permarooting them to my oblivion. Not to mention no help on the mana issues.

Definitely a reason to enjoy the beach this summer.

4 Comments

Neo Cyrus7/22/2015, 2:11:22 AM2 votes

The perma root is the reason they had to nerf him. They were adamant about keeping it, and such a ridiculous mechanic for a champ that hyperscales needs a very serious drawback. Don't forget the item buffs to Ryze, the new RoA is ridiculously powerful and costs even less to build. It's nearly 190% efficient. Seraph's also got buffed, etc etc.

The sad part is no one is satisfied with him. Ryze players don't like him having lowered stats and everyone else still thinks he's bullshit for having a perma-root.

ceral47/22/2015, 2:12:42 AM1 votes

don't worry, they'll buff him hard back in time for worlds

LordR4in7/22/2015, 2:58:36 AM1 votes

The problem with Ryze is people that don't play him don't realize how cumbersome it is to play him:

Early, you're always on stress, checking stacks, see if you can go in or not, wasting mana to keep stacks up, just to foil due to a gank, enemy turning around or worse yet, have no mana to finish the job.
When you are dishing out the spells, you are stuck. You can't move. It's not like Ahri or Vayne, that you can dash side to side. You're stuck.
Mana burns ridiculously. There's no way for Ryze to do anything early to mid, except go in burn almost everything, come back to fountain.
No escape. You still have no escape. No cleanse, no flashy moves, shield just helps a bit in the very early levels. After 6 you can kiss that shield goodbye.
You don't scale enough damage now. Now you need to make sure you pack a lot of mr pen, hit spell flux once to get their mr down and then try and go for the kill.

I wouldn't mind losing all the damage if they gave Ryze dexterity. It's ok to be a tower when you have the damage. It's ok to have lower damage if you can move freely. If you cut both, you might as well pack the champion.