Talk:Ryze/@comment-9048637-20131111142140

So, looking at the season 4 masteries as they currently stand, I'm thinking my setup for Ryze when they're rolled out may actually be 5/4/21. Sounds weird, but let me explain why:

First off, Utility still seems to have the things Ryze really, really likes. The change to Expanded Mind is going to be particularly gorgeous on him, and Itelligence is still going to make speccing up the full tree worth it, I think. Runic Affinity and Vampirism are just as nice as ever, of course. The only thing I can see about the new tree that might upset Ryze a bit is the fact that Wanderer and Nimble (Fleet of Foot as it's now called) have basically been switched around. But hey, they're still there, so that's good. Oh, and he'll no longer be the only person getting Strength of Spirit (actually, I think he now may be the one mage who might not get it). But hey, that was always kind of peripheral.

So, that accounts for 21 of our 30 points. What about the other 9? Well, Sorcery still seems very much worth getting, particularly now that they've adjusted the numbers between it and Intelligence to make them easier to itemize around. So that's 4 points in Offence off the bat. But I don't think putting the full 9 in offence is worth it now that you don't get any MPen out of the third tier; I know Ryze's AP scalings aren't as bad as they're commonly made out to be, but they're still not high enough to make sinking mastery points into them seem worth it for me.

So, the Defence tree, then. Enchanted Armour is obviously good for two points, especially given that Ryze gets a lot of his tankiness out of resists. But Block/Unyielding doesn't seem to fit particularly well given that Unyielding's effectiveness is halved on ranged champs, so sinking 3 into that combo doesn't appeal to me. Regeneration, on the other hand, gives Ryze some extra early sustain, which is currently one of his weak points, particularly if you're running MS quints over Spell Vamp ones (which I do, particularly since his recent range nerfs). So that's another 2 points. And finally, in a similar vein, a point in Feast (back in the Offence tree) seems to suit Ryze's strategy of playing a passive farm lane early on.

So there you have it. 5/4/21, despite how weird that sounds. What are your thoughts on this, though?