Riot wants to change the Champion Ryze again

Riot really seem loves to changing Ryze—the Rune Mage Less than a year after his last rework, Riot is considering further changes to his kit.

We’re not sure on Ryze‘s direction frankly,” Andrei “Meddler” van Roon, Riot’s core gameplay lead designer, said in the post. “We need to put some extended thought into that when time permits. Meddler said that Ryze, like Azir, suffers from mana management for large portions of the game. If a Ryze player fails to grab a blue buff in the early game, the player risks becoming irrelevant in the laning phase because Ryze would be unable to cast his spells as often as needed.

Riot is hoping to change his W, Rune Prison, into a skillshot ability that gives players a chance to dodge it. Rune Prison will currently automatically lock an opponent in place if they have been successfully fluxed (E) when you click on them. Riot already tested the R Ultimate ability to include some form of travel time between the cast and hitting an opponent. But Riot felt like the changes to the ability had more implications than it was hoping for and chose to revisit the concept in the future.

Riot said that it was not clear how it would implement new changes in the future, But Riot will definitely to change parts of his kit to help him in the early game and balance him for the future.