Show Ryze a little bit of love now that the Worlds patch is obviously being played on

Keshaun·10/22/2019, 5:20:34 AM·1 votes·1,011 views

After Ryze was disgustingly gutted a few patches ago, he just feels awful to play in my opinion. No shield on his passive anymore which makes him super squishy since he's a low to mid-ranged mage. E doesn't do damage to surrounding targets anymore but does spread to all surrounding targets on one cast which is a decent compensation buff. E also lost flux damage per level up which is now found on his R. This makes Ryze very weak compared to pre-nerf and makes his wave clear slightly worst since E doesn't do damage to surrounding targets and E > Q does less damage since E no longer has damage increase per level up. W change I'm ok with since it was annoying to play against a point click root and if Ryze is in a sticky situation, he should E > W for the root rather than increasing the root duration as it did pre-nerf. Q stayed the same and obviously like I said before, passive lost the shield functionality which I would love to see come back since so much of his kit was just nerf, nerf, nerfed.

4 Comments

Keiaga10/22/2019, 5:26:31 AM2 votes

Last I heard, riot gave up on trying to balance him for both pro play and the rest of us. They intentionally overnerfed him to make sure he doesn't cause any problems and then stated that they'll leave him in that state forever so they could use their resources on other champs, similar to kalista. Paraphrasing of course.