Talk:Ryze/@comment-5557556-20130511183721/@comment-9463023-20130530061930

Sapphire Crystal gives you more power but it's not a safe start, if you get poked you use up those pots really fast and you end up forced to back away or be in danger of dying.

Faerie Charm + 5 pots + ward + mana pot is my preferred start, you have so much more lane sustain.

Ryze's gameplay is tricky, he seems easy because you just need to start your combo properly and then just roll your face on the keyboard and you get kills. You might build tanky but your positioning must be perfect cause you have no mobility and the enemy team will most likely focus the hell out of you and when 5 people attack you, you'll die sooner or later.

Any person who says Ryze is weak early does not know what they are talking about. Ryze lacks poke and Kassadin has a good one? You do realise that when Kassa wants to Q in your face, you can manage to hit him with at least two spells while the projectile still travels right? You do realise you can constantly Q people and when they try to make a move on you Rune Prison stops them right away?

Ryze's main problems are poor waveclear and high range poke enemies like Zyra or Lux (and Cassio, because you need to constantly move to avoid her spells and it's hard to do that while trading with her). Other than that, you can try to trade with your 4 spell combo at level three or just play safe and when you are powerful enough - you go all in and kill.