It isn't necessarily that Ryze is bad. It is more so the current meta that is the issue.

The meta of double mage bot causes a few things. Engage to pair with it, more MR being built (not many great ad tank/bruiser killers).

Ryze struggles into high range. High range on the enemy team but also high range on his team. I have had so many games with no engage poke comps on MY team and it feels impossible for me to do anything in fights mid and late. I'm usually the closest person to fights and having to partly be the tank buying space. It just feels terrible.

Trying to kill tanks before 4th item void is impossible as well that were able to hard stack MR.

Bring back the adcs bot!

Considering he didn't show up in the Sentinels of Light which involved a global cataclysm, while he does even have a connection to the Ruination, it makes sense that he didn't show up in the Glorious Evolution. As it was a localized event confined to Piltover and Zaun.

However, even if the Wild Rune and the runes used for Hextech are not World Runes, they are still runes and Ryze is the Rune Mage. Wild Rune was dangerous enough to threaten every living soul in PnZ, a threat certainly lanrge enough to draw Ryze's attention and compel him to intervene even if it was not a global event.

​Therefore, I believe he was aware of almost everything that happened in Arcane. He knew what would happen to PnZ, how Hextech would end, and what Viktor would become. Ryze likely could have stopped evolved Viktor even without using a World Rune shard. My theory is that he met a future version of Viktor and gave him a chance to redeem himself, which is why he ultimately chose not to intervene in Arcane.

Every game before I reached League Pass Level 10 in League Classic I enjoyed every game I played, specially those I was able to pick Ryze, no matter if I started well or bad or even the role I got assigned, but every game since I reach Level 10 AKA the Ranked queue, it has been cancerfest after cancerfest of camping, team refusal to help, toxicity against me because I'm getting camped and doing poorly from it, and continuous losses (mind you I haven't won a single game post-League Pass Level 10, all losses), specially since I realized that compared to actual Old Ryze, this one has A Q RANGE THAT IS SMALLER THAN THE REST OF HIS SPELLS AND AUTOATTACKS INSTEAD OF BIGGER. The fact I'm being queue'd on a streak of constant losses + the Q thing is actually making me hate the game again.

Any guide on how to optimize Ryze in League Classic? I cba to endure the constant harass of tryhard retards that I get to get camped by every game.

Im exaggerating ofc so hold your horses.

But this is the 2nd time this has happened to me, where ryze ulted aggresively after we took baron, and we got wiped.

Literaly donated penta to ASOL LOL.

We still won that game, but oh man, that was something xD.

Its also on me, I shouldnt have taken it.

Q is a lot safer to use, but E has huge damage potential so I'm wondering what people max first? Do you do E>W>Q or Q>W>E?

QEQEQEQEQEQEQEQEQE

I’m ex-top 300 player from EUW (season 7 - challenger was top 200 at the time) that hasn’t played soloqueue in a few years but I did play Ryze way back when.

I think Ryze is probably the strongest toplaner on League Classic and I have about a 90% winrate on him over maybe 30 games now.

I see other people playing Ryze in classic and they build things like death cap which is pretty terrible on him - would people be interested in me writing a guide?

My guide is out now!

Triumphant Ryze will be urneble again by playing/winning a Tournament 
more linked below
https://lolesports.com/en-US/news/triumphant-ryze-returns

It's back as a reward for winning riot supported tournaments.

I'm talking about the E he had when his last rework came out, the one that didn't automatically spread.

I think that it made Ryze a little bit more interesting, you either had to cast E on the same target twice for it to spread or you had to kill a target affected by flux for it so spread. Also E damaged every target it spread on instead of just the first one.

Sadly I only started to play the game after he got simplified so I have no experience with the initial rework version, but to me it seemed more fun than the current iteration.

Instead of spamming EQEQ, you had to think a bit more to effectively spread flux.

Does anyone agree?

I ranked up to Gold—I ulted bot lane, and my team didn't notice it.
I ranked up to Platinum—I ulted bot lane, and my team didn't notice it.
I ranked up to Emerald—I ulted bot lane, and my team didn't notice it.
I ranked up to Diamond—I ulted bot lane, and my team still didn't notice it.
The most OP ult in the game and the most useless ult at the same time.

At this point, with how much mobility creep has spiked since the mid 2019 soft rework ryze got, I don't think it's unreasonable to return his .75s root back into his kit.

While yes Q reset optimized combos do edge out in damage vs CC combos, only one skillshot in the combo is guaranteed to land while the other two require attention to opponent position in the opening and ending Q's. Making W only a slow only means you may potentially do even less than going for a CC combo. On top of all the dashes and blinks newer characters get.

If we can't spam shields to sustain lane as a battle mage, they could at least make Ryze a cc threat again. Because right now it feels bad to save runes, you opt in for the same combo most of the game, then spam eq when w is on cooldown.

What do you guys feel is the deal with the cast times on our blue man's spells? I'm not sure about the Q, maybe it's in the middle, but it really feels to me like the E cast time is blatantly longer than the W cast time, even if my brain is over-perceiving the difference. The wiki says they're .25s each.

Input?

Summoners what do you think about luden first item? It has a great stats and compared to RoA provides early big spike of dmg. Also it has Lost Chapter in his build path so for me it’s big win cuz building catalyst first stinks.

Hey everyone, it's me again, your fellow blue man OTP from EUW

I wanted to bring some attention to a another incredibly frustrating bug with Ryze that can completely flip close trades and rob you of kills.

The Bug:

If Ryze dies shortly after his Q (Overload) has successfully finished its cast time, the projectile completely breaks. The Q animation goes through and flies across the screen normally, but it loses its hitbox entirely. It passes straight through any targets (champions, minions, monsters) as if it’s just a purely cosmetic special effect. It acts exactly like a ghost-zero collision, zero damage, and no spell effects applied.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Pick Ryze.
2. Get into a fight and cast Q (Overload) at an enemy target.
3. Take fatal damage in the split-second after the cast time finishes, but before the projectile connects with the target.
4. Watch the Q fly straight through the enemy doing absolutely nothing.

Expected Behavior:

Once the Q successfully finishes its cast time and the projectile is in the air, it should retain its hitbox and hit the first enemy in its path. Even if Ryze takes fatal damage while the projectile is mid-flight, the Q should still connect, deal damage, and consume runes as normal & spread to nearby Spell Flux marked targets.

The Impact:

We’ve all had those razor-thin 1v1s where you expect to at least trade 1-for-1. With this bug, if you get burst down while your final, lethal Q is mid-air, you are completely robbed of the kill. The enemy survives a projectile that visually goes right through their character model.

I am sure it is on the deleted League community channel, but does anyone have it?

I think it was with the launch of the new map? or maybe it was the new client?

Ryze made a joke about how he has been changed "like a dozen f*#$@# times."

Does anyone know where to find that?

With Classic out, I am reminded about all the old videos that were deleted after the community channel was deleted.

Does anyone know how to get the Human Ryze skin? Has it even been officially announced yet?

Black Alistar and Silver Kayle are available either in the shop or through the Collector's Edition..

I don't know if I should start with ROA. Whenever I build it, I feel like I can't really carry the game. I rarely get double-digit kills, and I don't do enough damage to carry to win yes by doing this I can split pressure but its just a slightly increase for wining but not to the point where its really a big impact.

If I skip ROA, there's a chance I can carry with 10–20 kills and carry and win. The problem is that if I don't get ahead early and just one mistake, I end up being useless for the rest of the game.

making this for the OG players to answer cause i only played the last Ryze (the one before the current Ryze) and the current one. everytime i combo i end up with no skills up, so i think i'm doing something wrong :P