Talk:Ryze/@comment-5266525-20121221040621/@comment-5162027-20121221042525

It's not really an overstatement. Starting with bottle and pots gave him super duper sustain early, which Ryze lacked, new tear cost allowed him to get it as early as 3 minutes in if he's lucky enough to nab an assist (let alonea kill or first blood) and bottle+tear made him charge it extremely quickly in lane.

The nerf is minor, and is more to compensate for the increased amount of cheap effective itemization he has earlygame now, to try to push him back to where he was.