Talk:Ryze/@comment-108.87.87.212-20110829184955/@comment-99.240.60.236-20110831075145

Ryze isn't really a good mid, for all the reasons you say - he can be outranged, out-CCed, and likely just outbursted between the harassing. I'd suggest just getting flat mana glyphs for laning on him, a Sapphire and health potions, being very fragging careful while you'll likely be just farming since you probably won't be fighting the lane well, and making sure you've got a jungler that can gank fast to help you since the odds are just against Ryze against other mages early-game if you must go mid against them. Against the more skillshot-reliant champions, you can try buying boots instead of the Sapphire (and get more health potions, wheee) and win if you dodge most of their stuff...but you are only human, so I'm not sure if it'd be safe to put too much faith in that.

Really, Ryze's early-game ain't too great. It's a simple fact about him, to balance out his facemeltingmelting (yes, it melts the face's melt) potential later on.