User blog comment:TheTobarMethod/Ryze The Pub Stomper/@comment-62.240.89.240-20130130203612/@comment-5556439-20130131200101

Nuclrdmntr I kinda disagree with most of those picks. Mainly Yi, Lux, Urgot, Ziggs, and Maokai. Those champions really arent going to be able to destroy him because 1 they have longer cooldowns in a fight, 2 they have lower overall damage than ryze in a fight, 3  they have no true method of protecting themselves and not to mention their builds do not center around any defense at all unless obligated to due to the enemy builds. Lux is probably the only real 50-50, since she cant immediately kill Ryze out-right, ryze will have just enough hp left to burst her down, and with his ult up and some MR kill her. Also, Ryze revolves around a naturally tanky build so if the laning phase lasts longer than usually, Lux will inevitably lose. The only way she in particular would compeltely dominate the lane is if she had blue buff early game and abused it.