Talk:Ryze/@comment-6061249-20141011155537/@comment-5955640-20141013211159

I thought. That his low range was enough. For a marksman the auto attack range averages around 550 to 525. Caster range is usually 600. A ranged champ can harass a no ranged melee technically speaking but in the favor of melee champs they can have a lot of steroids to take damage or rush the target even faster.

Ryze like a lot of champs at the time seems to have caster range while also being ranged so he's sort of like an anti melee in that at some point a melee champs can't rush him or outsustain him in a fight and because he's ranged rather than melee on autos he can do that a bit to ranged champs like marksmans as well. His only weakeness is against really long range mages with lots of CC to kite him with and more than one person ganging up on him when his ult is down.

You're on shaky ground when a team has to take you in a fight to defeat you.