User blog comment:Krufix/LoL and HoN, The truth./@comment-3514681-20120509134727/@comment-74.118.177.2-20120511034928

Yes every skill is a disable, but 2 of them are skillshots, one is a slow and one is a channeled ult that is easily interrupted. Not to mention his damage and scaling are very lacking, he is supremely item dependent even though his methods of farming are bad, he is not anywhere near as tanky as Ryze gets and that messing up his combo means using up all his mana so he cant do it again (even if he had mana, the cooldowns prevent him from doing anything for 8-10 seconds, rendering him almost useless for the rest of the teamfight), whereas Ryze can easily cast his spells numerous times in the teamfight due to his gigantic mana pool and low cooldowns. There's a reason why Pandemonium is very unviable at high level play