Talk:Ryze/@comment-31203455-20170201151335/@comment-26203093-20170208134401

You need to stop stating single elements as a problem without stating what a champion is supposed to be.

You could pull ryze in every god damn direction and change him into a different class. And some changes that would remove the root  -for the simple pleasure of removing it -   and replace it with something else that would look balanced on paper would absolutely break him. Let's say we turn his root into a slow. maintaining the coefficients and keeping in line with other abilities on other chamions, we could turn it into a 40% slow for 4 seconds.

This would break him. For as much as people complain about the slow, and how strong his damage is, his sustained damage IS better than his burst. for him it matters little if his target is rooted or slowed, going from 2 to 4 seconds would give him twice the time to kill someone - and he IS built like a duelist, with extra range and aoe, but less mobility, and less burst.

But with the flip of a single ability we can enhance his dueling capabilities, turn him into a control mage, or hey, we can actually make him a god damn juggernaut, though a battle mage is the more likely result.

Making a pun out of it doesn't change how vapid it is to say a vehicle needs two extra wheels when you have bike, not a car.