@Riot, @Meddler ---To Riot LOL Champion Designer: Please Rework RYZE Again

CoDDDogs··3 votes·869 views

Not an English-native speaker, sorry, guys.

hi, guys, good to see you all. I am a new LoL player, I just started playing LOL since last month (December). I have been playing Ryze for most of the time (90%) . Ryze He is a free and powerful champion , and that's why I chose him as my main. However, he is not easy to master. There are a lot techniques and combos that I have to learn in order to play him well. I spent lot of times to study him like finding guides and builds that suits him. I know he had been reworked for a few times because he was too powerful back then.

but here's the thing I found out after I looking for Ryze's stats:

http://champion.gg/statistics/#?sortBy=general.playPercent&order=descend http://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/by-winrate http://www.lolking.net/charts/champion-loserate?region=all&range=daily&map=sr&queue=normal http://www.lolskill.net/champion/ryze

> Stat. Popularity Win-rate

  • Champion.gg 5.67% 44.37%
  • Leagueofgraphs.com 9.6% 44.0%
  • lolking.net 8.8% 44.6%
  • lolskill 9.2% 43.7%

With such high Popularity yet low win-rate (NOT even over 45%) after the new rework, I sincerely hope any LOL champion designers could read my message and take an examination on Ryze. Objectively speaking, it's easier to master Ryze then champions like Yasuo, Riven. But why the win-rate of Ryze is unreasonably low?

As above-mentioned, Ryze is a powerful champion, but he got some serious cons as well:

  1. a very late-game champion- http://champion.gg/champion/Ryze/Middle
    The win-rate of Ryze reaches 50% only after 40min+. And right now most of the games ends within 30-40 mins. Even an experienced player might need at least 25-30mins to farm and develop Ryze. That means most Ryze players can't fully engage fight and AOE until late game , not to mention get killed/ganked in the mid-game which hinder ryze's development.

  2. Having an embarrassing ultimate- Real Warp- Lv1 distance-1750m Lv2 distance-3000m 2s for delay if Ryze is having level 1 Real warp, he is basically can't kill an escaping champion by himself because of the 2s delay and very short teleporting distance. Any opponent champions can just run or flash to Even ryze has a level 2 real warp, he can't gank/chase top/bot opponents if he is in mid-lane because he can only reach half distance .

Right now, I have heard Riot is having a discussion on reworking champions like Rek'sai , Irelia and , unfortunately, Ryze is one of them. Riot, please, this time does give Ryze a good rework instead of making his root (w) as projector.. please.\

1 Comments

Ark Sorcerer1 votes

One of the many issues with Ryze is that he has a targeted root, which is something that cannot be avoided. So, he can control the flow of trading much more than any other champ that has cc, because it is a line skillshot or an aoe. What does not help is that is e is also targeted. Meaning that only his q is the only skill shot in his kit. Knowing that his ult does not do damage, that means that the rest of his kit has to make up for a lack of a damaging ult. So he becomes over loaded. Which ties back into a targeted root and another targeted ability.

That is just one part of the reason why he has so many issues. I could go on and say how he is combo base, so sticking with him means having a high win rate, and a really high one at that, or maybe his passive, but then I would be stepping into more... uncertain (for me, personally) territory. So I will just leave it at that.

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