User blog comment:Leyrann/Hard counters./@comment-81.84.46.177-20120729130410/@comment-79.3.242.93-20120729142904

that and ryze just sits under turret waiting for jungle ganks, rushes Banshee's Veil and safely farms every time he has his ulti..

ryze is stronger in teamfights and scales way better than kassadin into lategame expecially if you don't feed kassa by playing recklessly ( his long cooldowns force him to choose to use his abilities either to farm or to harass ) and push his lane hardcore when he leaves to gank other lanes (same problem LB has vs strong pushers).

Ryze suffers before lvl 9 and banshee's veil.. after that he has the punch and the sustain to beat and outtrade kassadin every time he comes in with his teleport.