Talk:Ryze/Background/@comment-160.29.30.225-20120223123214/@comment-3339721-20120506222303

Overload scaled off of CURRENT mana, which sucked a lot, because his passive gave him bonus AP at low health... what are the odds you'll have full mana and low health? slim to none.

Rune prison was considerably more powerful because it ALSO prevented any basic attacks from being used when you were imprisoned.

Arcane mastery let him deal magic damage on-hit and gave him bonu damage based off of 10%/20%/30%/40%/50% of your AP, which made Nashor's Tooth kinda ridiculous on him.

And his ultimate was basically devestating.

What would happen is, ryze would roam the map, rune prison you, stand right next to you and use spell-flux, which would bounce to you 3 times, likely killing you instantly if you weren't a Cho'Gath with a force of nature.... then he'd kinda just hide again until his ult was up. It was annoying to play against, and not very fun to play as.