Moba: Peak Era

In the S5 World Championship, the top lane is king. Therefore, the heroes that impressed the global audience were basically the top lane heroes.

——That is the mid-lane Ryze.

Many people say that only Faker played Ryze in S5.

This is not accurate.

Chen Ziyou remembers that in the summer season of S5, the appearance rate of the new version of Ryze was not low.

However, because the skill range was too short compared to traditional mages and he was too weak in the early stage, he was basically used to play top lane.

Against tank heroes, Ryze did not face much pressure in the early stage.

Moreover, the equipment idea was still based on the equipment of Ryze's"Fattan" in S4.

After the top lane Ryze's equipment was formed, he activated his ultimate skill, and his AOE in team battles was also good. He could also withstand damage. Therefore, Ryze was very popular in major regions during the summer season and was a T1-level top lane hero.

However, this was not the best way to play Ryze.

Before the start of S5, Ryze was severely weakened. Coupled with the appearance of the"heavy warrior", the strength of the top lane increased significantly, and this hero who was too weak in the early stage completely disappeared in the top lane.

It was not until the S5 World Championship that the hero Ryze was truly developed into a mature way of playing.

At the S5 World Championship, Faker pioneered the use of the new version of Ryze in the middle lane and developed the real horror of this hero, a desperate spell machine gun combo that made the top mid laners around the world stand in the penalty area.

What is the horror of Ryze?

The core of his skill set is the passive [Arcane Mastery].

Passive effect: Every time Ryze uses a skill, he will stack a layer of Arcane Master's passive. If he does not use a skill after 12 seconds, the number of layers will be reset to zero.

When Ryze's passive stacks to five layers, he will enter [Overload Mode].

Ryze will immediately gain a shield based on his maximum mana. At the same time, in Overload Mode, every time Ryze uses a skill, he can reduce the cooldown of his other skills by the same amount as the cooldown of his Q.

For example, the CD of the Q skill is 4s, and the CD of the W skill is 10s.

Using any skill will reduce the CD of all Ryze's skills by 4s (including the ultimate).

The most buggy thing is that the passive effect of Ryze's ultimate [Desperate Strength (R)] will have a built-in 10/20/30% cooldown reduction.

While activating his ultimate, Ryze will gain a double bonus to his movement speed and spell lifesteal.

With his ultimate + overload mode activated, Ryze is an immortal thunder and lightning mage, like a demon king coming to the world.

There is no doubt that this is a"monster hero" created by Riot designers by accident, and its numerical values and mechanisms have destroyed the balance.

However, no one has yet developed its playing style, equipment ideas, and principles.

According to history, it was not until the end of the World Championship that Faker perfected Ryze's gameplay.

But at that time, Ryze had already been weakened once.

At this time, as a reborn with an understanding beyond the version, Chen Ziyou used Ryze's most mature equipment, playing style, and combos in this version where Ryze had just been remade and not yet weakened.

He will be the real demon king who has descended on the Summoner's Rift.

Flashing in the middle lane and killing Clockwork alone was just the first appearance of the demon king.

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As soon as Clockwork died, EDG went straight to the dragon.

At this time, the dragon was not divided into"elemental dragons", but each time a dragon was killed, a layer of"Dragon Slayer" buff would be obtained.

1st layer of Dragon Slayer buff: +8% attack and spell power.

2nd layer of Dragon Slayer buff: +15% damage to wild monsters and heroes.

3rd layer of Dragon Slayer buff: +5% movement speed.

4th layer of Dragon Slayer buff: +15% damage to buildings.

5th layer of Dragon Slayer buff: Your attacks will cause an additional 150 points of true damage in 3 seconds.

This version has five layers of Dragon Slayer buffs, and the effect of bathing in dragon blood is too strong.

It often happens that one team has four layers of Dragon Slayer buff, while the other team has no Dragon Slayer buff at all, and has to come out to join the dragon fight.

Even if the latter team grabs the dragon, it is useless because there is only one layer of Dragon Slayer buff.

Therefore, every dragon in this version is very important.

But there is no way. When Clockwork died, King had no chance to join the fight and could only let it go.

After protecting his teammates and killing the little dragon, Ryze returned to the city to replenish his equipment, and then chose to tp back to the line to continue developing.

"We can’t let him continue to develop."

Ryze’s operation in the middle lane obviously frightened the King team.

They wanted to kill Ryze, who had been developing in a low-key manner.

"He didn't dodge, this is an opportunity!"

Yumi reported

"OK，OK"

16 minutes into the game, Insec was driving the Gragas towards the top lane.

After killing the dragon, everyone on EDG went back to the city for supplies, and only Ryze, who was TPing, was the fastest to return.

Therefore, Clearlove couldn't be in the top lane this time!

Insec seized this opportunity.

When he just passed the dragon pit, perhaps because he was seen by Clearlove's vision, Ryze immediately retreated to the defensive tower.

"GOGOGO! Kill him!"

Insec shouted loudly, fearing that his teammates were not willing to kill him.

Coke, who had been feeling frustrated during the laning phase, would never give up this opportunity.

——Justice and glory.

A golden glow appeared on the body of the tree. After running for a while, it flashed W to tie up Ryze, slowed him down with Q, and then activated its ultimate.

At the same time, Gragas, who had just finished drinking (W), emerged from the river. He first threw a Q, then raised his hand and used an ultimate to blast Ryze back onto the barrel, and then used a meat bomb impact (E) to top it up.

Insec felt very handsome for this wave of geometric barrel operations, and a confident smile appeared on his chubby face.

Although both the tree and the barrel are tank heroes, their basic damage is not bad. Ryze's time was just created two minutes ago, and his tankiness is almost zero. After this set of moves, Ryze's health was directly reduced by two-thirds.

——

As long as the tree and the barrel stick to Ryze and wait for the skill CD to turn over, they can complete the kill.���However

, they were still too unfamiliar with the newly reworked Ryze.

‘I only have two passive layers on me, that's enough.……’

When Chen Ziyou saw the barrel appear in the field of vision, he knew that he could not escape this wave.

——However, there is no need to run away!

The equipment of the barrel is only the slag jungle knife + a ruby + five-speed shoes, and the jungle rune generally does not bring magic resistance

‘He is very fragile……’

With this in mind, Chen Ziyou threw a Q into the air in advance, stacking his passive to two layers, and then he was hit by a combo of Tree + Gragas.

After the control ended, the counterattack officially began!

Ryze, who originally had only one-third of his health left, suddenly had a blue arcane light on his body. This lightning king raised his hand to freeze the barrel, and the spell surged at his fingertips.

A scene with great visual effects appeared.

The barrel's health dropped at an alarming rate, while Ryze's health rose.

The tree was startled and moved forward quickly, trying to block the damage for his teammates. However, Ryze, who accelerated during the duration of the ultimate, passed him directly and continued to attack the barrel face to face.

WQE (five layers of passive trigger overload mode), RQEQWQEQA (pause), speed up and move around the tree, WQEQ.

As long as you are proficient, Ryze's combo is not difficult, which is equivalent to rolling your face on the keyboard.

The key is - calm and mature thinking at a critical moment.

Which skill to start with, what order of combos to use, how accurate the combos should be, how to move between skills... let's not talk about that.

When the last Overload (Q) took away the Barrel, Ryze's health was already full.

Then, Ryze stared at Maokai with a fierce look.

Coke panicked. Now the combat power of Maokai and Ryze was obviously not on the same level. He could only run!

He had to run away!

If he was killed by a newcomer in a 2v1, he would be ruined.

After taking two more Qs from Ryze, Maokai's W skill CD was ready. He turned around and used Q to slow down Ryze, and used W to distance himself from the minions.

Before Coke could show a smile of survival, a desperate scene appeared.

——Desperate Strength (R).

That's right.

Ryze's ultimate once again glowed with arcane light.

Ryze's level 2 ultimate only has a base cooldown of 60s.

With Ryze's current cooldown reduction, it's only 48s. After the overload mode output just now, the ultimate is once again in good condition.

Ryze accelerated to catch up with the tree and cast the spell machine gun again.

Even though the tree has the damage reduction effect of its own ultimate, it only has Catalyst Stone + Glory of Justice at this time, and it can't withstand the output of Ryze who has developed so well.

——Double_Kill (Double Kill)

The sound effect of double kill echoes throughout the Summoner's Rift.