Talk:Ryze/@comment-7619298-20130812095019

Ryze's base damages are so high.

Level 18 stats:

Q: 240 base damage W: 256 base damage E: 142 base damage per bounce

If you ever wondered why Ryze scales so well, it's because his spells also scale with character level. On other champions, level 5 is the maximum on their abilities.

Just do the math and you'll see that at level 16 Ryze's Q deals 25 more base damage than at level 9, which is exactly how much a level 6 Q would do. To a lesser extend this also goes for his W and E, but it's less noticable, because you don't max them first.

I'm just really sad, now that his Q has 50 less range than his auto attack.