User blog comment:TheTobarMethod/Ryze The Pub Stomper/@comment-110.55.1.226-20130130212937

ryze is a great champ to play because he has decent range and damages as well as hard CC with decent cooldown, however, ryze is considered a burst mage, meaning, he can only good if he is able to burst a target which means if he is bursted down or CCed before bursting down his target, he would be useless. Bursting Ryze down is not a hard feat because he doesn't have a defensive skill and he is not that tough to burst down unless built tanky(RoA,Frozen Heart, etc) Ryze being a pub stomper is a different thing. Ryze's gank is pretty strong since he has a hard CC as well as great damage burst but his mobility is bit lacking and he is pretty easy to gank himself. Unlike other burst mage champs that have great mobility as well as damage, Ryze is a bit lacking compared to them. For example, Leblanc is one of the best burst mages in the game, her early game is pretty safe and she has great ganking potential. Other burst mages that can control the map are Ahri, Katarina, Akali, Kassadin, as well as AP Yi which is pretty popular nowadays. Why am i mentioning map control? Because dominating a lane doesn't mean dominating the whole game. You can be 10 0 in a lane but if the opponent is dominating the other lanes, you still won't probably win. LoL is pretty balanced in this kind of sense because I personally experienced this wherein im dominating mid lane with my katarina but we still manage to lose because bot and top lane didn't do well. So to be able to "pub stomp" in solo queue you SHOULD have a great map control as well as great lane presence. Ryze has great lane potential and his map presence is considerably good so it is possible but not easy.