Talk:Ryze/@comment-199.234.90.214-20110624170353/@comment-3543691-20110626212946

I main Ryze and Ryze is fine now. He actually got an indirect buff in a recent patch that fixed the Expanded Mind mastery to work with your total mana, so now you can take that mastery and effectively have an 8.4% mana ratio on your Q and a 5.25% ratio on your W, at the expense of your Awareness mastery. I think there are three design problems with Ryze:

1) It takes research to figure out how to use Ryze's passive correctly. Ryze is supposed to be easy to play yet it's taken me dozens of games and hours of research to figure out how to fully take advantage of Ryze's passive. I constantly see people of all Elo ranges cast Ryze's spells in an unoptimal order and when played like that Ryze is nothing more than an underpowered nuker. Of course, now that I've got his passive figured out I love the depth and feel it gives him. 2) It's odd that Spell Flux used to be Ryze's strongest spell and is now a one-point-wonder to reduce his cooldowns. I do like the increased consistency of his damage output, though. Ryze's consistency is a big reason I prefer Ryze over Annie -- I find Annie's passive annoying to deal with and Annie is much weaker when her ult is on cooldown. 3) I hate to say this but Frozen Heart's aura is overpowered and needs to be nerfed.