Your build is good and everything, but I think that you need to change your Ionian Boots of Lucidity and your CD runes to sorcerer shoes and some other runes. Ryze's Q passivly gives him 10 CD reduction, the Frozen Heart gives him 20 more, and masteries give him 9. You can keep like 3 CD reduction marks if you really want to get to 40, but I think 39 is close enough. Your guide gets so much CD reduction that you are waisting quite a bit of it. Other than that I like your guide.

CDR is capped at 40% but this build adds up to 63.63
I recommend you check out my build.

Well, this build gives him 4000 mana, I have yet to see a ryze with much more than that. This gives him the benefit of being able to handle himself, and to be able to deal out damage like no one's business.

You don't need to be fed to have 4.2k mana, just skill on minions to stack your tear of the goddess.



The last mastery in the offensive tree makes your champion do 5% extra damage.

However, I just played a game with 9-0-21 masteries and ended up going 32-1-7 in a ranked. So, I think ill change the masteries in this build.

Owning instead of raping lol.

First, I think tanking Ryze will be more useful cos' when you reach 26+ (late game) If you are fed you will have like 3.2k and 4.2k mana and you will be raping everyone.

how does the 21 offensive masteries make his skills hit harder O_o? shouldnt just 9 in the offensive tree work...?

Well i use 21/0/9 masteries to make his skills hit harder.

Well I mean.... This is a little different for Ryze. There's some really questionable stuff as far as your masteries go... Like why would you go for the experience buff and not the mana buff? It doesn't make sense for a Ryze player. Like the Force of Nature. Why get that when you could get Lich bane, which is, sorry to say better in every way for Ryze. Magic resist, Mana, a wicked passive, AP, move speed. Rethink your build a bit.

Not a bad build, though very similar to Sagasu's ryze build.

The masteries confuse me. It is generally well accepted that the 21 point offensive tree is a waste for casters because so many of the points do not help. Consider backing out some points there and grabbing strength of spirit in the defensive tree.

I would recommend sorc boots over lucidity, as a blue elixir can give you that cdr but not the magic pen. Additionally, I understand the mana runes, but wouldn't mana/lvl be better? Lvl 1 dmg should not be super important to Ryze, who relies on a combo with short cds to do damage.

This build is not bad but I think the best way to play ryze is to get archangels and then stacking as much mana possible just saying :S I mean your build is not bad, I just think mag resistenace and lots of health is not what ryze is for. Hope you don't get insulted with what i'm saying as I'm just saying my point of view but oh well, it's always good to be open minded :)