I find Ryze to be a particularly interesting character in the league in that you only really see him played at the extremely low ELO's where he's the first champion that a player buys, or at the very high ELO's where extremely good players have figured out how to actually make his damage output dangerous. In the mid tier ELO's, most discard the Rogue Mage in order to play mages with a larger range, like Morgana, or some other high burst champion like Annie or Anivia.
Relatively recently, Ryze has gotten a nerf that attacked the thing that made Ryze Ryze, his ability to... Read More