League of Legends champions Ryze and Ashe get reworks

Both Ashe and Ryze are part of League of Legends' original 40 champions. While there have been some changes to their kits here and there, along your typical buffs and nerfs, they've largely remained the same.

Until now… Riot has launched reworks for both Ashe and and Ryze. Ashe's changes are only now hitting the Public Beta Environment (PBE) and Ryze's changes are leaving the PBE to go live.

Let's take a look at both champions and their changes.

RYZE

Passive: Arcane Mastery

• Ryze builds up stacks of Arcane Mastery as he casts his abilities. After reaching max stacks, Ryze becomes temporarily supercharged and gains a couple of powerful buffs: casting an ability significantlyreduces the cooldown of his other abilities. Ryze also gains a shield based on his max mana.

  Ryze’s damage dealing abilities scale in part with his maximum mana

Q: Overload

• Ryze fires a ball of rune energy out in a target direction, damaging the first enemy struck.

R: Rune Prison

• Ryze traps a targeted enemy, damaging them and rooting them for a short duration

E: Spell Flux

• Ryze targets an enemy unit, blasting them with a slow-moving ball of energy that, after striking the target, splits to damage all nearby enemies before returning to Ryze’s original target, dealing increasing damage based on the number of bolts.

W: Desperate Power

• Passive: Ryze passively gains cooldown reduction.
• Active: Ryze channels immense power, gaining significant spell vamp and movement speed and turning all of his abilities into area of effect abilities.

What has changed?

Old Ryze was consistent through out the the game, he built-up power and maintained his damage output. New Ryze will alternate between states of "relative weakness" and "power." The mastery of Ryze's passive will make him a powerhouse at times, giving him the potential to "utterly destroy his target" and when his passive isn't charged he will be weaker than old Ryze.

Ryze's Q (Overload) was at one point targeted, but it is not targeted any more. Instead Overload will have a longer range. Spell Flux can be potentially brutal to enemies standing in a bunch.

ASHE

Passive: Frost Shot [NEW]

• Ashe slows whoever she damages with her basic attacks and abilities. Ashe's basic attacks always deal bonus damage to slowed targets, replacing her ability to critically strike. Bonus damage increases with her critical strike chance.

Q: Ranger's Focus [NEW]

• Passive: Ashe gains a stack of Focus whenever she slows an enemy, up to a cap of five stacks.
• Active: Ashe gains a small amount of attack speed and applies a heavier Frost Shot slow for a few seconds. If Ashe has fully stacked her Focus, she also fires out a fast salvo of arrows with every basic attack for the ability’s duration.

W: Volley

• Ashe nocks several arrows on her bow before firing them simultaneously in a large cone before her. Each arrow deals damage and slows its victim.
• [NEW] Ashe fires more arrows than before. Targets are more likely to be hit by multiple arrows, but they'll only take damage from one.

E: Hawkshot

• Ashe commands her hawk to scout out an area. The hawk travels slowly, revealing areas it passes as it heads towards the target direction. Once the hawk reaches its destination, it hovers for a few seconds, revealing all non-stealthed units, even in brush.
• [NEW] Hawkshot now has a global range. Ashe can store up to 2 Hawkshots for quick use, too

R: Enchanted Arrow Crystal

• Ashe fires a huge ice missile in a target direction, damaging and stunning the first enemy champion it hits, with the stun duration dependant on the distance the missile travels. Enchanted Crystal Arrow also damages and slows all neutral and enemy targets surrounding its victim.

What has changed?

Ashe has lost the "less exciting" elements of her kit (say farewell to her old Passive). Frost Shot was a "dull ability" so it has been reworked to her Passive. Ranger's Focus plays off of Frost Shot, but it doesn't give you the "occasional nuke," players will consistently deal extra damage as they build crit. Volley has been reworked to be less powerful, there are more rounds in the attack, but she has a higher chance of hitting both enemies and neutral targets. Hawkshot now has multiple charges, including the ability to store two for quick use.