Talk:Malzahar/@comment-24309189-20140922041323/@comment-8468980-20141107061351

"My apologies if you thought I was accusing you of saying it just because Ryze is played in Worlds."

That's kind of what it looked like. NP either way.

"then we have to consider the likes of Swain, Cassiopeia, Azir... these can all potentially do more single-target DPS than Ryze"

I don't know about Azir at all. His late game damage is astonishing sometimes, so I can't put him into the equation. As for Cass and Swain, equally fed Ryze is dealing better single target damage than either. Ryze can build whatever tanky stuff he needs, doesn't need to worry about resources, doesn't need to worry about skills shots, doesn't need to worry about keeping his target right where he wants at all times, gets free mpen, free ms, free spellvamp, free CDR, did I mention his ulti makes his spells deal aoe damage that benefit from the single target damage spellvamp modifier? He is seriously the best mage duelist.