I thought Ryze's update was to include a gameplay and visual update. Am I crazy but I thought it would be more of a cohesive update. Something more than the type of update that Kassidan got but now it's not even that? What happened?
We hope to hit model and animations at a later time, but due to some unforeseen issues, we couldn't yet do them, and we didn't want to hold the VFX/SFX/Gameplay until whenever that might be. -Riotrepertoir
Heimerdinger underwent a similar treatment. I am certain his visual update will be revealed soon™.
Ryze needs a new model because he looks like 
. JUST KIDDING I ACTUALLY LIKE BARD!
The first one was Kassadin, the second one was Morgana and now is Ryze. Why skill updates come before model updates?
