Is ryze a hard champion

d4rkshock·Jul 7, 2017·3 votes·2,404 views

Ryze is tanky and scales late and can still be a machine gun spell cater with some CDR. He also like riven has alot of combos. Basically the AP version of riven minus the fast combo. I can guarantee that riven is at least 10 times harder. Your ult is irrelevant unless your premade and atleast until riot puts voice chat in. As long as you have quick cast enabled, you could have no problem with executing your combos. Qeqwq for damage. Ewrq for escape. E a low HP minion then q for wave clear.those are the basic combos. But is ryze that hard of a champion.

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NachingJul 7, 20171 votes

Ryze is easy, normally 1 combo is the better option in most the situations versus champs but his R is a waste and useless most the times...so he could be better if you will choose between teleport or another thing in his R... but Riot doesnt want.

Riven is easy , her only difficult is be a mele no-tank

d4rkshockJul 7, 20171 votes

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Ryze is easy, normally 1 combo is the better option in most the situations versus champs but his R is a waste and useless most the times...so he could be better if you will choose between teleport or another thing in his R... but Riot doesnt want.

Riven is easy , her only difficult is be a mele no-tank

Actually, she's quite hard because you need to be able to do the fast combo which takes a bit of practice to learn.

RenownedWheat42Jul 7, 20171 votes

Getting the combos down competently can take some work. There's a reason his winrate is abysmal even though pros show you can wipe the floor with plenty of matchups as Ryze.

thecowleyJul 7, 20171 votes

Ryze is low entry high mastery. With a good team (basically premade or high elo) he can turn into a serious monster. Nothing in is kit is difficult to learn, but his skill expression is very high.

Honestly he is a good benchmark in that regard in my opinion. I kinda wish more champs could follow that trend.

DanjengJul 8, 20171 votes

IDK why any posts asking for help on Ryze gets down voted.

His difficulty is moderate. He doesn't have to manage a pet, and positioning doesn't effect his DPS much, but his spells definitely have a lot of depth. The main thing is to constantly balance between maximizing DPS with Q resets, and to maximize survivability with holding on to your Q after two spells. You have to make this decision every few seconds to every split second when W is up. All the while repositioning yourself every quarter second. It's important that you do not memorize any combos. You must instead understand what each spell does and react accordingly to your enemies.

The Ginger NingaJul 8, 20171 votes

Ryze is your OG battle mage, which means you have to treat him like a fighter. But instead of wanting to get right up to the enemy, you want to get right in the middle of your max range, and theirs. Because unlike a fighter, you aren't too tanky. The most common Ryze build is item 3027 item 3040 item 3165 with some defense from item 3157 or item 3102 . Besides some minor defensive stats, you are building damage items with strong passives/actives that can be defensive. But when fighting someone like Olaf or Darius, you need to dodge their abilities, while also pelting them with yours. Because the moment they get you into their damage zone, you are gonna die.

To answer your question, I would say that Ryze is a hard champion. There is a specific reason why Ryze has such a low win rate across most levels of play except high ranked. His damage, while high, only shines during extended fights, which don't happen if he gets caught out or focused hard. Early game you don't do much, you can get some good damage off, but most of the time unless you capitalize on it well you will run out of mana before you can kill someone. But once you start stacking mana on mana, you start doing a lot of damage. Orb walk around your enemies, keeping melee champs off of you with E --> W --> Q for a better snare and movement speed. I find Stormraiders surge to be quite good on Ryze because you always want to be moving quickly, and thunderlords doesn't do much for you due to the fact that you don't really burst, you whittle opponents down. Ryze is also fairly good at 1v1ing, but only if he can keep opponents in his ring of damage, and out of theirs. Most adcs will just out damage you late game, so you need to rely on your team to handle them. Ryze is just a different champ then what he used to be, and he isn't a face roll as he used to be.

I have to disagree with your comment on his ult being useless in solo q. I have done plenty of good ults where the only indication I gave my team was a lot of "coming" and "help" pings. Even won the game off of a few. It, like any utility ult, requires your team to know how to capitalize off of it well. So yes, there will be duds, but the pros outways the cons.