Talk:Ryze/@comment-68.109.110.108-20121213225301

One of the things that makes ryze so strong is his absurd scaling with items.

Assuming a full build of: Sorc shoes + RoA + Muramana + Abbysal + Iceborn Gauntlet + Seraph's embrace (unlikely, but lets not nitpick, eh?)

His Q has a base damage of 240 when base mana is considered.

His AP with these items will be 360 w/o runes or masteries (maybe like 12 more cause of masteries), giving him 144 Q damage.

His Bonus mana is 3200, which is an additional 208 damage on Q.

Muramana operates off of 4440 total mana (no masteries), adding 266 Damage to his Q.

In total, this boosts the damage of his Q to 370% of his base, almost quadrupaled.

The effect is increased further by the reasonable pen you build on him, is similar or greater for AA, and less for W and E. Additionally, muramana is diminished by being at less than 100% mana.

Tl;Dr: I do boring, long calculations to show that ryze gets stupidly high scaling on his skills and similar, compared to a typical AP's "I deal 200-250% of my base", to demonstrate why he is a hypercarry.