Talk:Ryze/@comment-4117463-20151108220903/@comment-10136989-20151113114722

Champs like Cassiopeia, Vayne, Draven etc that have no dash but high dps and chase potential are always beaten well by CC and focused fire. You could say the same about many champs but if you think of someone like Annie, she hits you with R+Q+W and that's it, taking her out of the fight after she's done 80% of the damage she could do isn't as good as taking out the adc that is still doing constant damage.

Ryze is a bit different, firstly in that he is tanky, sometimes focus isn't enough to get him straight out the fight, and secondly in that although putting out what looks like insane DPS, he is really just bursting over a period of 3-5 seconds. Without his passive running or using ult his actual damage output is fairly small, and has a significant decrease in damage during his passives downtime. That being said, treat him like the Annie. Take them out before they can launch their full salvo at you, or you're going to have problems, or lock him down during his passive while you can disengage.