Ryze currently at lowest winrate after rework at 37% in mid lane

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Huh, I don't know where you're getting your stats from, but here's what I'm seeing on lolking:

1. 40.7% overall
2. 41% in ranked solo (eyeballing)
3. 40% in Diamond (averaging over several days; the number does occasionally dip down to the 37% number you mentioned, and actually did today so maybe that's what you're looking at?)
4. 42% in ranked 5v5

Overall, I think 40-41% is a fairer number for him. Of course, that's still very low. I expect that the number will go up a bit with time as people optimize builds and get used to him (I hear Manamune is actually kinda insane with him now), but with numbers that low I'd be surprised if he didn't need a substantial buff. 40% is kind of my personal line for being able to say "this champion is really, really bad" just based on win rate.

In short: I think they should probably give him a bit of a buff in 5.10, and keep watching after that to see if he needs more.

Maybe here

http://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/ryze

He said he is 37% as a mid laner.

Problem with ryze is that he is under whelming before the rework and people just never known how to fight him and changing his Q makes him worthless in lane since the only way he can win game is to actually be a bully.

Those numbers are still horrid. He needs buffing to be anywhere near viable for any ranked or team comp.

Funny thing; I leveled Ryze exactly the same way with the old design. It might not have been the absolute best path pre-rework, but it's basically the way to deal with post-rework Ryze.

I find that taking E first is a good idea to be able to trade until you hit level 2. Once you do that grab Q and then you can trade fairly well. After that, its up to you how you want to level him judging on the current match up. Need to catch more people faster? Put more points into W. Need more poke? Level Q. Need more aoe? Level E. You see where I'm going.

In terms of actually getting a Frozen Heart... I would only get it if armor would be beneficial to surviving. Ryze can still be built as a tank. Frozen heart is only situational now.

I have found that you should be maxing E, not Q first. E does a shit load of damage if they are standing in a minion wave, and also gives more per rank than Q. Ranking Q also reduces your passive's early game power.

How does it reduce your passive's power? Q has a 4 second CD at every rank so it's not like you lose out on the CD reduction.

maxing E only works vs noobs that stay within their minion range, the aoe is so pathetic that even melees can avoid getting hit multiple times. Also, Q gets the manaratio increased per rank and is cast ateast 3 times as often in a combo than any other spell and costs way less mana, so while the raw basedamage on a rankup doesn't increase to much, it still offers most damage for combos and also dps while offering more mana-efficient poke in the eary.

And you still get FH on him as it's the only reasonable mana+armor item in the game. He still needs that exta tankiness, and he also still wants some mana, and cdr early on doesn't hurt aswell.

200 mana = 16 on passive shield

22 AP = 0 on passive hield

Granted, how you prioritize is up to the individual, and 16 extra shield might not be enough to be worth it.