Just revert Ryze - even if I get fed in his current form I can't do anything and I get one shot
Like what is this? It's always a great joke when the boards gets flooded by Shaco community about how Shaco "sucks right now" how they gutted him but those people that are complaining have incredibly high win rates on the champion. Shaco has great influence early game and late game, even if you cant one shot anyone.
My first point is that assassins right now have 2 very big ways to influence the game. First, one shot the carry or anyone for that matter after the incessant amount of assassins buffs. Second, split push if all fails. This is my biggest quarrel with assassins. I can stomp on my midlane assassin match up but late game when I am trying to team fight they just split push. If I go to deal with them they use assassin tools to escape. Shaco, Zed, Talon, they're all the fucking same thing. In this case, Shaco could split push then join the team fight and one shot me. .75s isn't fast enough for me to press Zhonyas but even if I did where would that put me? 2 seconds delayed death? But AD assassins get everything, nullifying orb, the lethality spell shield item, Maw. What do mages get to deal with assassins? Zhonyas. A 2 second fucking stasis that delays your death. "X shouldn't be out of place" I am UNDER MY WEAK ASS TOWER THAT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING. AD assassins specifically have so many ways to deal with mages.
My second and main point is that Ryze just needs to be reworked or reverted I really don't give a shit anymore. Just revert the champion. Rooting Yi, Akali, Irelia for .75s literally doesn't do anything. Merc treads decrease root to .5 and I can't extended root unless I am willing to give up damage. Is this literally the only way to balance the root problem that s5 Ryze had? Next, E and empowered E are probably the most frustrating thing about Ryze aside from R. If I want to double E at rank 1 that means I have to be willing to spend 120 mana. Want to know how much 120 mana is? Max rank Kog'maw E, Darius R, Warwick R. 120 mana is 20% of Ryze's mana at level 1 with Sapphire Crystal start. And that is just to try to clear the first wave. Ryze's R is straight bull shit. I rarely use it for solo Q, can't use it like assassins to to escape, can't Zhonyas anymore because that was "broken", has no level 6,11,16 power spike, my team doesnt' know how to coordinate with it, and in this current damage meta it is completely useless. While other champions spike at 6, Ryze doesn't. Ryze doesn't really spike at any point in the game. It is just this slow, gruesome increase in power while everything has these bursts. Old Ryze was sustained consistent damage and I really don't know what current Ryze is. If people's issue was with Ryze W, then just fucking fix the W to something else instead of changing literally everything besides W.
**This is why the rework team did a trash job at current Ryze, they didn't listen to the community and made an LCS champion that isn't even pick/banned/contested in the LCS anymore **
