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Hey Stonewall, I really love your videos and your tier lists, but the only problem I have is following your speaking. If I'm not paying attention in the second that you say the name of the jungler you are about to talk about, I essentially fail to understand that part. Of course this is my fault, but if you could just add an annotation that says who you're currently talking about or make the picture match what you're talking about, that would be much appreciated, and I believe that would add to the quality of your videos. Just a suggestion, you don't have to take it, but I think it would be nice. Keep up the good work!

So did the EU servers go down yet?

Hey guys,

Yesterday, I played a ranked game as Ryze and fed like hell. I realized that I actually don't know how to play him very well. I attribute a large part of this to my lack of knowledge and experience with his combos. To me, it seems like there is incentive to cast each one of his abilities first. Overload's (Q) low cooldown makes me want to use it first so I can use it again during the same combo (by casting another spell or two and taking the cooldown down by 1 or 2 seconds). Rune prison (W) traps the target and ensures I can hit the rest of my combo, so I also feel that it is strong to cast first. Spell flux (E) reduces the target's magic resist. This makes any part of the combo cast after it deal more damage, making me want to cast it first. Even Desperate Power (R) needs to be cast first due to the fact that it greatly increases DPS and also gives huge spell vamp.

As you can see, I am quite confused about what to cast when in the combos, with and without ult. Can someone help me out with this?

Hmmm, that's some good food for thought, I think you guys have convinced me. Just changed all of my x/21/z mastery pages to include those masteries. Thanks for the help!

Guys, I simply do not understand why the season 3 masteries block and unyielding are so popular. They block 5 damage from basic attacks in total. Are they more useful than an extra 1.5 or 3 Armor/MR from Hardiness/Resistance plus 10% reduced crit damage from Reinforced Armor? To me, 3 points in the defensive tree are too valuable to waste on 5 reduced damage from champ basic attacks. Please help me understand this guys. Thanks.