User blog comment:BIA-Kaboose/Proposed Ryze Rework/@comment-24170465-20140121012859

I think that ryze is fine. Through this you're pretty much making his ult less important and his passive very very powerful. Changing his snare to aoe and adding a slow to his q (even with the channel) is op, and combined with the new passive means he could take these two very early and chase down/pin down just about anyone. Regardless of how mobility creep is in the current meta, this is excessive.