Talk:Ryze/@comment-4900160-20150110015841/@comment-3308937-20150110180852

I'd say Heat (Rumble's resource) is the most skill based resource in the game. Energy varies from champion to champion, Akali basically never needs to worry about it while Shen has to actively think about each of his skill's costs and how long it would take to get that energy back.

If this were Dota I'd agree with you in regards to mana taking skill and planning but it's generally a nonfactor in League. As long as you aren't spamming all your skills to farm you'll basically never have to worry about conserving mana in case the enemy all-ins or something and even there once you get your first mana item practically all mana problems cease to exist (barring some champs like Anivia).

Ryze is a problematic champion and has been since becoming a mana scaling champ, he's been nerfed countless times for being a completely bully and late-game hypercarry super tank. It's not all based around his mana scalings though which makes looking at it objectively difficult but you can say a lot of problems do stem from being able to build tank and damage at the same time.