Not a bad guide i like it, Ryze is my favorite champion 9/10 of my games i am playing with him and i started playing League of legends on December 2009, did few pentas with him, if any one is interested in my guide check it out guys http://www.lolking.net/guides/48119 i spend like hours and hours building it.

Hmmm... good point. I'm relocating into a new apartment right now and between working, getting everything settled, and spending time enjoying NYC, I haven't had time to get the furniture to set up my rig. When I do, I want to experiment a little with extra AP setups, both in the mid and late game.

Items currently waiting to be tested:
Haunting Guise
Abyssal Mask
Rabadon's Deathcap

The first two would be in lieu of the Void Staff - the Guise I think would be a build like Tear, Sorc Shoes, Guise, and resume building, while the Abyssal would be based on team composition (2-3 casters on your team) or a situation where you don't need the spell shield from Banshee's Veil, but still want the early MRes from the Negatron Cloak.

Feel free to try them out and we can compare notes when I get some time to test 'em.

Oh, how I fell love in your guide just now! I have been playing Ryze a lot but there are always so many new things to learn. But there is one thing I would like to point out. Have you thought about building Deathcap instead of Void Staff? It would greatly increase the AP benefit from RoA and Archangel's Staff. I have tried it out and it increases the damage like hell against a team that's not stacking MR. With full build you would have >4000 mana AND the 500 AP casters usually have.

You know, I really haven't put in too much work on this since Ryze got patched a bunch. Back when he hit a little harder, I spammed abilities a bit more between levels 6-12, and that's the main reason why I had the Seals of Clarity in there.

If you look, Seal of Knowledge is my 1st alternate in the runes section. However, giving it some extra thought, I think I'll make the switch given his new(er) playstyle.

Hopefully I can find some time in the near future to finish off a few more sections.

I'd like to comment, hopefully with a bit more detail than the two before me who broached the same topic I'm curious about now. Your choice of Seal of Clarity vs. Seal of Knowledge.

Seal of Knowledge:
1.17 mana per seal at level 1 for a total of 10.53 mana.
21.06 mana per seal at level 18 for a total of 189.54 mana.
Bonus - Stacks with mana percentage increases in damage.

Seal of Clarity:
.065 mana regen per 5 seconds per seal at level 1 for a total of .585 mana regen per 5 seconds.
1.17 mana regen per 5 seconds per seal at level 18 for a total of 10.53 mana regen per 5 seconds.
Bonus - None.

Generally, Ryze doesn't go empty until it's time to get back to base and purchase a new item anyway, so I don't really understand the choice to use Seal of Clarity over Seal of Knowledge.

Other than the one rune choice, I love this guide. I've been using another as a resource for awhile, but I think i'll start giving this one a stronger look.

Oh, despite the other comments about Archangel Staff, I'm a fan of it earlier as well. One thing the other posters failed to mention when they were stating it's capabilities, was the mana increase per 3 second ability use with a max of 1000 mana. With how much spam nuking Ryze tends to do, and his quick footed range staying, getting that 1000 mana increase earlier in the game is a HUGE increase in overall effect. The AP percentage increase is an extremely nice bonus as AP, despite the previous posters stating AP being useless, is a full 3rd of the damage of every single one of Ryze's abilities. (This is even stated in each of his ability descriptions)

Overall, amazing work Aurelial. I hope you take the rune choices into consideration.

Is one of the better guides I've seen. I really liked your offense side since you've put some points in Butcher which most people don't get. 1-4 AP doesn't help a great deal esp with someone who is that mana hungry early game. Some of the things I thought needed improvement were: 1- the Pros/Cons section of the guide, you need bbcoding. 2- Your assessment of karthus. I'm not going to say that you're entirely wrong, but I'd like to give you the chance to fight a good one for mid. Add me ingame and we'll roll. I think it is good to be optimistic, however it is better to be realistic about the threat that karthus' range presents. In my guide I'm very upfront about bad matchups and I think you should include a matchup section (this will prevent trolling downvotes from kids who say something like, "Got owned my first time using this guide!!") All in all its an upvote for me, the idea is there. Please take a look at my guide as well. It is here and waiting for your review. Hope to see you on the top of the Ryze builds list.

can u tell me how u do huge damage low ap?

He have a point tbt.. Those glyphs are totaly USELESS. I never ever run out of mana after lvl 4-6.

Great guide +

Really, you made an account just to downvote the poor guy? You should be ashamed of yourself:/

An upvote to counter the troll vote. Great guide dude!