Talk:Ryze/@comment-4849897-20120427161624

I don't seem to understand why people consider his AP ratios so bad. His Q scales on 20% of his total Ability Power. Let's compare it to Annie's Q - scaling on 70% of her total Ability Power. Now, the difference is, Ryze can literally spam his Q as part of his Combo, after using it 4 times it profits from 80% of Ryze total Ability Power. Now, in every teamfight, it's also AoE and offers built-in spellvamp without any further manacosts.

Even if Annie manages to land 2 useful Q's in a teamfight - I believe Ryze Q profits just a bit more from Ability Power than Annies Q if he manages to land his combo properly, with ult activated, AoE hitting decent amount of enemy champions etc.

In my opinion, the teamfight presence of "AP Ryze" already IS overwhelming.