You know how Ryze could be made easier?
#WARNING: This kind of change OBVIOUSLY is intended to come with significant nerfs elsewhere, but isn't the intention with Ryze to reduce the currently too wide gap between experienced an inexperienced players? By making his stacks decay one at a time, instead of having all of them disappear at once. This way, anyone can just build mana and spam Q in the nothingness to constantly be ready, if they're not good enough to prepare quickly their stacks for a particular occasion. Manastacking isn't as good on Ryze as it used to be anyway, so it being forced to build tons of mana for this playstyle shouldn't be too effective damage-wise but just opportunity-wise.