LoR:Ryze
The Rune Mage.When I'm summoned or Round Start: Create 2
2 Delve Into The Pasts in your deck.
3
5
5Kayle's silent 
3 servant. He looked down on a land scarred by war, and caught sight of the darkin monstrosities warring below. For centuries, he had watched on as humanity veered from one catastrophe to another. What if, he thought, his efforts were futile, and Runeterra was doomed to die?"
Ryze is a champion in Legends of Runeterra.
2 Delve Into The Pasts in your deck.
Attack: Activate all your World Runes. If you have 5 unique World Runes, destroy the enemy Nexus. 4 6
Ryze is a champion in Legends of Runeterra.
Ryze's Realm Warp is a champion spell in Legends of Runeterra.
Burst and 
Focus spells into your deck during deckbuilding.At the start of the game, create 2
2 Delve Into The Pasts in your deck for each 4Ryze that started the game in your deck.
The Rune Mage is an origin in Legends of Runeterra.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- When he activates the Level 2 effect on Attack with 5 World Runes, all enemy Equipments, Landmark, and Units are
Obliterated, then the Nexus.
- In very specific cases, this can lead to tie games instead of a win for the Ryze player, for example when a captured unit is resummoned that wins the game with its summon effect.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Internally:
- The Rune Mage is called The Rune King
- A 3 Winged Messenger is featured in his Level 1 artwork.
- The 2 Shard of Violence is featured in his Level 2 artwork.
Quotes[edit | edit source]
Summoned[edit | edit source]
- "I long for the day when this is over..."
- "Power changes everyone."
- "Man will always fight, and always die."
- "What right do I have to use a World Rune?"
Enemy 6Aatrox present
- Aatrox: "The Rune Mage, come to watch his precious world die!"
- Ryze: "No. Come to stop you, whatever it takes."
- Ryze: "I long for the day when this is over..."
- Aatrox: "As do I, Rune Mage."
Allied 5Kayle present
- Kayle: "My 3 messenger reached you, then. I am glad."
- Ryze: "If you'd called on me sooner, we might have time for pleasantries."
- Ryze: "What right do I have to use a World Rune?"
- Kayle: "You are responsible for their use. None other."
Enemy 6 Xolaani present
- Xolaani: "You must be Ryze. Bow to your queen."
- Ryze: "You're not the first to ask me. You won't be the last."
Sees a 
Unit Summoned[edit | edit source]
Enemy 6Aatrox
- Ryze: "You would destroy all this for your... 'peace'?!"
- Aatrox: "It is the only path, and so I gladly walk it."
- Ryze: "Enough, Aatrox. Stop this madness!"
- Aatrox: "Madness is exactly what I will end, Ryze!"
Allied 5Kayle
- Ryze: "Are you and I the only ones standing up to this madness?"
- Kayle: "Who else can, old friend?"
- Ryze: "Ah, Kayle. Here to witness the end?"
- Kayle: "I am here to prevent it, Ryze. As are you."
Enemy 6 Xolaani
- Ryze: "Xolaani, I have seen your statues. The people loved you."
- Xolaani: "They will love me once again, as will you."
Allied 2 Shard of Betrayal
- "Tyrus, you left me alone... and for what?!"
- "Your final lesson: that I alone must bear this burden."
Allied 2 Shard of Hope
- "6Viego knew the risks, and forged on regardless."
- "How can the pursuit of love warrant the end of reason?"
Allied 2 Shard of Madness
- "The Ascended thought they could best the
Void. How far they fell..." - *sighs* "War... It breaks the best of us."
Allied 2 Shard of Reverence
- "Arrogance plagues us—10his, and ours."
- "We crave control... break our backs for it."
Allied 2 Shard of Violence
- "Icathia sought freedom... but found only the Void."
- "They did not know. How could they?"
Allied 3 Winged Messenger
- "Here we are, messenger, standing at the precipice."
- "Kayle was wise in sending you."
Level Up[edit | edit source]
- "I cannot stand by in the face of apocalypse!"
- "It is time! I must fight for Runeterra!"
- "My name is Ryze! I am the Rune Mage!"
Sees a 
Spell or 
Skill Resolve[edit | edit source]
Allied 3 Realm Warp
- "We don't have enough time!"
- "I cannot linger!"
- "The shards will show me the path."
Attack Declared[edit | edit source]
- *sighs* "They have no idea."
- *sighs* "Curse these fools!"
- "I must decide."
Block Declared[edit | edit source]
- "Keep your distance."
- "Why won't you listen?"
- "I'm no savior."
Death[edit | edit source]
- "Hide... them..."
- "Run..."
- Ryze groans.
Turn timer appears[edit | edit source]
Allied turn timer
- "If not now, when?"
Enemy turn timer
- "You think your choices are hard? Hah."
- "Make your choice, and live with its consequences!"
Chosen[edit | edit source]
- "Another day, another apocalypse."
- "Who calls on the Rune Mage?"
Removed from choice[edit | edit source]
- "Leave me to my work..."
Victory[edit | edit source]
- "I pray you will not need me again."
- "Celebrate if you wish, but you must learn from this."
- "Enjoy your victory, but learn from its cost."
Defeat[edit | edit source]
- "I failed my promise. I have failed Runeterra."
- "Then... this is the end?"
Change Log[edit | edit source]
| Ryze | |
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| Ryze (Level 2) | |
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| V3.21 |
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| Ryze's Realm Warp | |
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| V3.21 |
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| The Rune Mage | |
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RegionEvery card in Legends of Runeterra is sorted into a region based off a canon region of 
Runeterra. Cards within a region tend to share mechanics such as certain keywords and tend to synergise well with each other, and combining cards from different regions can lead to unique synergies and playstyles, with their own strengths and weaknesses. Game Modes and deckbuilding rules have specific restrictions on the number of regions that can be in a deck.
ManaMana is the primary resource used to play cards in Legends of Runeterra.
Collectable cards from 
Runeterra have a specified unique Origin card (or 'Origin') associated with them. Each distinct card in the deck with an Origin counts as one of the deck's 
regions. The Origin of these cards allows specific cards to be added to the deck regardless of their region.
Origins can also have an effect that is active from the start of the game and throughout, if there is a card with them in the deck at the start of the game
Effect triggers 
when the round starts.
Level UpLevel Up is a keyword that causes a 
champion card, and all copies of them, to transform into an upgraded version of itself instantly, playing an animation, keeping all effects applied to it and damage taken and counting as the same unit. The vast majority of Champions gain improved stats (most often, an increase of 1 in both Power and Health) when they Level Up, in addition to new/improved effects and keywords.
PowerDictates the damage a unit does in combat, whether attacking or defending. This value can be changed through various cards temporarily or permanently, but each card has a default Power that it returns to if effects are removed.
Collectible cards always have a Rarity gem at the bottom. Most effects which activate 
Random can only create Collectible cards.
SpellShield Units with SpellShield is immune to all effects of the next SINGLE enemy spell or skill that affects them. Removed when the unit is affected by an enemy spell or skill.
The effects (or the rest effects) that have affected SpellShield units are still working as normal (it's just that they don't affect SpellShield units). For example: 2 Vile Feast on SpellShield unit still summons a 1 Spiderling; OR 
5 Tri-beam Improbulator still summons a unit.
If multiple spells or skills interact, SpellShield will take effect before 
Barrier.
| Type | Static | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Positive | |
| Generatable | Yes | |
| Transferable | Yes | |
Burst spells resolve instantaneously after being committed.They can be committed at any time during the user's turn. They are added to the stack, but resolve instantaneously during the turn they are committed, so functionally aren't. They commit as soon as any required targets/choices are declared.
FocusFocus spells resolve instantaneously after being committed.
They can be committed so long as combat isn't happening and there is no spells on the Stack. They are added to the stack, but resolve instantaneously during the turn they are committed, so functionally aren't. They commit as soon as any required targets/choices are declared.
Obliterate
attachments from the current game.
When cards are obliterated from either player's deck or hand, they are shown to both of them.
Obliterated units are not considered dead or to have died.
SeeA unit sees an action happen if it is on the board when it happens.
Unit card Champion or a 
Follower card. A unit card can be played by spending 
Mana equal to its cost, and fulfilling any additional conditions in the card text, which summons it. A unit has a Cost, 
Power and 
Health. A unit can also have additional card text that has its own effects, usually only when the unit is alive.Ally in card text refers to an allied unit. Enemy in card text refers to one of your opponent's units.
Spells
speed of a spell dictates when it can be played, and whether the opponent can respond.
The Spell Stack: Once one or more Fast or Slow spells have been played, it can be responded / reacted to by the opponent with one or more Fast or Burst spells. Fast spells played are added to the stack, where the most recent one placed is the first to resolve. Once the response is confirmed by pressing the Button, the opponent has a chance to react, and this continues until both players pass. Only 10 spells can be on the stack at once, and the 10th spell may only be Burst.
Skill spell-like card that can be committed by a unit. Goes on the Spell Stack like a Fast or Slow spell.
Skills are committed to enact a unit's card text in a way that can be reacted to. If card text creates a Skill, there will usually be an 
icon before the text to indicate this.
The text of skills is usually written as if it's on the unit itself, but they count as their own card. In particular, damage dealt by a skill is not dealt by the generating unit.
- Examples of this are when a unit is dragged into the Attack or
Block position, or when a spell is dragged onto the board. - When a spell is declared, then undeclared, it's placed in the rightmost position in the hand.
- When an attack or block is declared, then undeclared, the unit(s) are placed in the rightmost position on the board.
Death unit is reduced to 0 Health or is otherwise killed, it is removed from play.Effects that specifically kill a unit go through
Barrier.
Killed units are added to a list of units that have died in the game, which the game interacts with in various ways. Multiple copies of a unit can be on this list.
A unit killing another refers to it reducing another's Health to 0 with a 
Strike or with its own card text.
Skills generated by the text don't count as the same card and therefore do not count as killing for this purpose. See Skill.
Burst spells, or non-manual commitments such as Skills).
Casting Burst Spells and Playing a unit are notable actions that are committed as soon as they're declared.
The Darkin Saga (Subset 6)
- New mechanics: Equipment, Flow, Forge, Improvise, New, Empowered, Assimilate
- New subtypes: Darkin, Cultist, Weaponmaster, World Rune
Beyond the Bandlewood (Set 5)
- New region:
Bandle City - New mechanics:
Impact, 1 Prank, Manifest, Multi-region, 
Fated, Attach, 
Formidable
Rising Tides (Set 2)
New region: 
Bilgewater
New mechanics: Attune, Deep, Plunder, Scout, Vulnerable, Nab, Toss and Stack
Foundations (Set 1)
New regions: 
Demacia, 
Freljord, 
Ionia, 
Noxus, 
Piltover & Zaun and 
Shadow Isles.
Bandle City
Runeterra region: 
Bandle City
Bilgewater
Runeterra region: 
Bilgewater, Serpent Isles
Freljord
Runeterra region: 
Freljord, likely 
The Arctic
Shadow Isles
Runeterra regions: 
Shadow Isles, 
Blessed Isles
Shurima summoning and to facilitate slaying units for swift aggression, whittling and weathering down the opponent with large numbers of units, de-buffing effects and board-wide effects, while using mechanics such as Predict and Countdown to set up and guarantee wins, and to have the right cards just when you need them.