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Buffing Ryze doesn't make sense

Nerfing Eve is huge but makes sense, Nerfing Kat makes sense

Banner of Command still underwhelming, nerfing WotA makes it even more underwhelming

Actually if you look closely it is Ryze nerf overall. Just because his Q got 1% increase does not mean it is buff, while rest of his skills got nerfed. It just makes him better harasser. 

The patch displays the changes to the previous PBE version. Summed up, they just set Ryze back to his current state. And no, the previous Ryze was definitely not the stronger one, as you cast Q once each 1.1 seconds, while you cast w and e much less frequently.

Wait, I've gotta correct both of you here. The changes shown above are considering the last PBE Ryze, not the live Ryze. In the previous PBE patch they already reduced Q's mana scaling from 6.5% to 6% and bumped up the mana cost to +5 per rank.

So what they actually did here is nerfing his q ratio by a whopping 1%. They didn't touch the mana cost which would have been a cruel nerf indeed, as Ryze really suffers early mana problems. Plus, once you got Muramana (which should always be prefered over Archangel's Staff), bumping up Q's mana cost would have been another damage nerf.

To sum things up, Ryze got nerfed here. Late game he lost about 40 damage per Q which equals about 36 DPS (theoretically you should be able to cast one Q every 1.1 seconds). Pretty huge if you're asking me.

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I love Xerath, he was the first 6300 RP champ that I bought.

 

edit: *IP

So you edit that shit and write *IP below instead of replacing it? :P

OldManEyebrows, I really like your articles, but here's something that keeps annoying me ;):

It's concerning your "it's". If you use "its" as a possessive pronoun, you have to write it without the apostrophe.

Little example:

"Dragon is a strong monster. Its attacks also apply an attack speed debuff as well as a dot."

Or another one you just used in that article:

"The most commonly taken activated items in Season 2 were Shurelya's and Randuin's, followed by Deathgrasp (depending on its current state, it switched around) and Zhonya's (which not every mage gets)."

"It's" is basically only used if you could also write "it is".

I think foreigners like me, speaking a more "complex" language (no offense ;)) are doing that mistake less likely, as they learn the grammatic aspects in school very early on.

Best regards,

Simenae

What do you think about Ryze getting Muramana? The toggle also applies on spells and with his insane mana pool he could do shitloads of damage. Additionally, the Muramana helps him taking down towers, as it did back then where some Ryzes used to get Manamune.

Or is Archangel's still the better choice?

Singed will rape hard. Ryze will rape hard. And they already do, Jesus Christ!

Heimerdinger! Why the hell do they update every splash art that's perfectly fine, but keep that awful Heimerdinger one? I don't get it.

I already understood the the QQ ratio thingy, thank you for the further explanation anyway :)

Is there any general recommendation for AD carry runes, assuming you don't have any problems with last hitting minions? I'm currently running the 'better' one of your mixes (arpen marks, damage quints) and it works perfectly fine. I wonder if full arpen would deal more damage, though (despite the fact that the AD quints have the higher ratio).

Can someone explain me why you prefer 7 ArPen marks and 2 AD marks over 9 ArPen marks? It doesn't really make sense to me.