Talk:VPBE/@comment-24795478-20150317091546/@comment-3974211-20150317222602

Riot has learned from experience that players respond more negatively to "bench nerfs" than simply leaving the champion be until the rework. Riot keeps fiddling with the numbers because they don't want to bench Ryze, as they did with Rengar and Olaf in the past.

Or, the previous nerfs were just to keep him out of the Spring LCS, and now he's getting let back up. So it's tactical benching.