User blog comment:Temluis/Ryze, rework/@comment-5077844-20140514145703

So just looking at that Q...you're making one of the best (and most stupid) toplane mages some sort of a magic nasus? Nope...all nope. That's just ridiculous. Everything Ryze does is spamming spells in early to get easy kills and then proceed to roll faces. If he now gets infinite scaling, he'd be hte most broken toplane ever.

It's like Nasus. He can stomp everything if he farms his Q, only difference: Nasus is melee and gets violated early by a lot of common toplaners. Ryze violates everything that can't burst his health away while being able to safely recover (renekton comes to mind). Thus regardless of how you tweak his numbers, letting him stack his mana infinitely will break him beyond recognition.