Ryze

The Rune Mage

Mage · Mana · Ranged

About

Ryze, the Rune Mage, is a mage champion who uses Mana as a resource and attacks at range. Their kit focuses on magic damage.

On the official scale, difficulty is 7 out of 10: a champion hard and needs practice to perform well.

Compared with other champions, Ryze starts with average HP (620), below average armor (22) and average move speed (340). Attack range is 550 units.

Ryze has 14 skins besides the default look.

Difficulty

Attack2

Defense2

Magic10

Difficulty7

Abilities

Passive · Arcane Mastery
Ryze's spells deal extra damage based on his Bonus Mana, and he gains a percentage increase to his maximum Mana based on his Ability Power.
Q · Overload
Passively, Ryze's other basic abilities reset the cooldown of Overload and charge a rune. When Ryze casts Overload with 2 runes charged, he gains a brief burst of Move Speed. On cast, Ryze throws a charge of pure energy in a line, dealing damage to the first enemy struck. If the target has Flux on it, Overload deals extra damage and bounces to nearby enemies with Flux.
Cooldown: 5s · Cost: 40/38/36/34/32
W · Rune Prison
Ryze traps a target in a cage of runes, damaging them and slowing their movement. If the target has Flux on it, they are instead rooted.
Cooldown: 11/10.5/10/9.5/9s · Cost: 50/60/70/80/90
E · Spell Flux
Ryze releases an orb of pure magical power that damages an enemy and debuffs all nearby enemies. Ryze's spells have additional effects against the debuffed enemy.
Cooldown: 3.5/3.25/3/2.75/2.5s · Cost: 40/50/60/70/80
R (Ultimate) · Realm Warp
Passively, Overload deals even more damage against targets with Flux. On cast, Ryze creates a portal to a nearby location. After a few seconds, allies standing near the portal are teleported to the target location.
Cooldown: 180/160/140s · Cost: 100

Tips for playing Ryze

Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.

Tips for playing against Ryze

Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.

Base stats

HP: 620 (+124 per level)
Mana: 300 (+70 per level)
Armor: 22 (+4.7 per level)
Magic resist: 32 (+1.3 per level)
Attack damage: 55
Attack speed: 0.658 (+2.11 per level)
Move speed: 340
Range: 550

Lore

Widely considered one of the most adept sorcerers on Runeterra, Ryze is an ancient, hard-bitten archmage with an impossibly heavy burden to bear. Armed with immense arcane power and a boundless constitution, he tirelessly hunts for World Runes—fragments of the raw magic that once shaped the world from nothingness. He must retrieve these artifacts before they fall into the wrong hands, for Ryze understands the horrors they could unleash on Runeterra.