Talk:Ryze/@comment-1920550-20160712171308/@comment-24385282-20160713010607

They slightly explain it in his Champion Spotlight vid, as well, though it's less in-depth than what Krufix said. His entire kit is already damage and between his 3 basic abilities he already has enough self-synergy, combos, and spam potential that if he had an ultimate that fit into or empowered the combos in any way, that'd basically just be super overkill.

Also, this way he has some team-wide utility, potential to do more than just deal damage and even make game-changing plays. If he just added another spell to his rotation or gave another empowerment to his existing combos beyond, he wouldn't be able to do that sort of thing.