Talk:Ryze/@comment-27507138-20160811112813/@comment-24496127-20160814222003

I find that he works well, it's just really difficult to pick him up now. I've had a lot of fun learning him, and some things are just hard to use properly. Like the shield and movespeed with two runes, for example. Originally, I basically ignored that, but it's actually core to beating a ton of matchups. How you get it to activate and when and what's optimal isn't really clear, so people play him and do poorly and it lowers his winrate.

I don't think buffing him right now would be smart, if he isn't an obvious problem then there's no reason to make a quick decision on this.