Talk:Ryze/@comment-217.92.220.184-20120415195033/@comment-218.103.199.134-20120416100513

Ryalis is suboptimal on Ryze, it's cost inefficient and a complete waste of his mana ratios. Your faceroll combo should be near instantaneous, if you can't kill them fast enough either you don't have the burst (in which case a slow does not help!) or you're not smartcasting. Pay for more mana instead of a slow which you don't need. Will of the Ancients or Rod of Ages is a much better option than Ryalis.

Frozen Heart, Bveil, AA's, Sorcs are fine, they're standard on Ryze.

Also, don't grab Soul Shroud, that's a terrible, terrible Ryze item. You already get max CDR from your Q passive, Frozen Heart, and masteries. Instead of wasting the 2.3k gold on Soul Shroud, buy void staff instead for the mpen (they cost about the same anyway).