User blog comment:TheTobarMethod/Ryze The Pub Stomper/@comment-3970297-20130130215703/@comment-5969087-20130201174630

vs talon you rush glacial shroud and catalyst and he will never ever kill you, you can keep riven at distance with W and overall outdamage her in long exchanges, just set your runes and masteries right and Ryze can beat anyone.

It's not even true that you HAVE to stand still to pull off the combo, you can move in between spells to kite and dodge skillshots.

While it's true that Ryze has probably the worst pre 6 of all midlaners ( with the exception of anivia and kassadin maybe ) it's also true that you can start with a very tanky sustained setup and still deal a crapload of damage after you buy just a couple of items.

Besides, you don't need kills that badly, you scale so well with levels and tear stacks that you can just hold on until 6 and then powerfarm your lane from safe distance after mana is not an issue anymore.

Leblanc giving you issues ? try to push her lane hard earlygame to deny her roaming potential and see where she stands after 10 minutes of farming under turret ( she's crap at it )