I have only one thing to say about this Ryze update

YumaS2Astral·Jun 28, 2016·8 votes·944 views

Thank you Riot for reworking his ultimate. It was just a bunch of free stats which just made Ryze pretty unhealthy to fight against. With spellvamp it was impossible to outduel or outsustain Ryze. With movement speed, you couldn't flee from Ryze at all. And if that wasn't enough, giving him free cooldown reduction also allowed Ryze to build other items with more raw AP because he didn't had to itemize for cooldown reduction items which had less AP.

Free stats abilities and passives are almost always hard to balance and unhealthy (seriously, the only exceptions I can think are Singed, Nocturne, and Vladimir). While one can argue that a 5-man teleport is going to be pretty powerful, I am sure that Riot will balance this ability with a very high cooldown and/or with short range.

5 Comments

ReshiKillimJun 28, 20163 votes

I also like how you can knock people out of Ryze's teleport zone with CC. As it's shown to be an AoE on the ground and not around Ryze, I believe you can knock him out of his own ult if you have a knockback.

Which means Lee and Trist will be good to have on your team if I'm not sorely mistaken.

CatastropJun 28, 20162 votes

I think any hard CC cancels it entirely, or at least that's what I read in the post.

Jeddy017Jun 29, 20161 votes

I don't think it cancels it, but more like it stops the target from traveling with it. I don't know, have to ask any of the rioters involved with the gameplay side of the update.

Lady HammerlockJun 29, 20161 votes

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I think any hard CC cancels it entirely, or at least that's what I read in the post.

The tooltip specifically notes "if Ryze is unable to cast or move realm warp cancels"(might be paraphrased) so yes that includes snares,roots,stuns,knock ups and backs

now I'm curious is it possible for a friendly Taliyah Anivia or Trundle to cancel realm warp