@Meddler, i Heard That You Are Reworking Ryze
I just want to ask you: will you admit that you failed in 2011 to change him? I main ryze since i started to play league in late 2010 until his last nerf where there are no reasons to pick him over cassio. When Maokai Patch arrived, his playstyle has changed so hard that it made no sens. We went from a mage who was considered to be an assassin by players building full AP+mana, to a tank who rushed Frozen heart+tear+banshee and still oneshoted people. And why? because you reworked his burst into DPS with a new passive,reduced his damages with new low cooldown and took away his old ulti which was as Bad as the new one.
Then we had your 4 or 5 nerf. "We reduced the mana ratio from 10% to 8%! Wait he actually needs 7.5%. Never mind, 6.5%!" And what phreak commented about ryze? "Ryze has to much isses, first he is overpowered at high lvl as he deals way to much damage for his tankiness, second he has only one build" The mana Ratio is bringing issues because of the constant damage due to the low cooldown on his Q+his passive which gives him free cdr, and reduce the cd every time he cast a spell.
I don't even talk about his gameplay, what the heck is that? no interaction between his spells except his passive,only point and click, overall spamm your spells until your target is dead, repeat that always,and his ulti is so BAD really? You fight hidden power meanwhile we have a non-noticed spell vamp in fight + 50% aoe damage. Unless that we are full build we can hardly notice the spell vamp and the AOE damage. Give us a REAL ulti, not a spell vamp bonus, nor an AP bonus like the old one.
An example of how you can change him to a burst mage instead of DPS tank: get ride of his passive, his Q passive, and increase the cooldown and the AP ratio of his Q . Put an AP to mana convertion passive and a % increase of AP on his Q. That's way ryze would more benefit from AP, and mana ryze will do less damage because his Q will have a longer cooldown. An example of how you can put interaction between his spells: His E is now a skill shot, marking people with a debuff. The debuff reduce the enemy mr and every other ability of ryze will gain a bonus if they hit a debuffed enemy.
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