Talk:Ryze/@comment-26251295-20151108210549/@comment-10136989-20151109183315

There's always a problem with people that can use RoA effectively. It's a fantastic item once stacked, but when just finished it's a bit meh. If people can hold out for the 10 minutes (which is generally the case) then people like Ryze, Kassadin, Singed, Swain, Anivia etc etc all become godlike.

Ryze even more so as the huge amount of mana it gave more than made up for the poor AP ratios. Now he has medium amounts of both ratios, and finishing his Roa stacking completely breaks his damage output. Playing Ryze with a different build than RoA he is fairly balanced.