This Ryze Nerf Is Awful.

What were Riot thinking? He is literally unplayable, uncarryable until you get to level 16 - 18 and have a lot of magic pen so you can almost do true magic damage + a team that has not fed. The 5 spell cap is so awful, you cannot, I repeat CANNOT kill a single champion squishy or tanky unless they are 60% HP or lower. You get them down to 15% - 10% HP after 1 rotation and have to use pathetic basic attacks and wait 2 whole seconds to fire an E that does hardly any damage and in that time frame you do not survive the fight at all until you have a Void Staff. This is literally one of the worst decisions to balance a champion. What I don't understand is why Ryze has been nerfed when his Solo Queue performance was really poor. LCS yes I understand he is a solid pick but they won't even have the nerf themselves so it only screws over the very small percent of players that practiced Ryze on Solo Queue to master him.

The PBE notes said they are buffing the Q damage by about 40 base damage this is nice but it needs more, not more damage but Ryze will still under-perform due to this 5 spell cap, if you want Supercharge to be his passive you need to give him more spells to sling. I really don't see what their plan is for Ryze. In my opinion just get to work on a whole new kit for Ryze because you've made problems trying to resolve his balance from 1st rework Ryze and you clearly can't maintain the 2nd one. I just can't believe how badly they've gutted him this time around, I am used to Ryze being nerfed but he's always been able to perform well if you play around the nerfs this time this literally cancels any of that out because the stupid 5 spell cap.