Talk:Ryze/@comment-27507138-20160811112813/@comment-26001789-20160815085541

His ult is a nice way to help your team and yourself get out of a boring laning phase. The idea is that Ryze can bring himself and someone else to a fight and instantly change it's course but it kinda can't happen because Riot thought that giving him any sort of range would be to risky, in hopes to never do something like Twisted Fate(despite the fact that they did it with Taliyah, whoops).

I think Riot did over think this one by giving him only two ranks and stuffing his main spell with a conditional 6th rank. If Ryze had an ultimate that had 2000/3000/4000 range and gave him his Old Q scaling, he would at least have and be less binary with his Ult and Teamfighting, since he would then be like a cheaper version of TF/Taliyah.

Until then, however, he is gonna be and feel clunky