Talk:Ryze/@comment-24228596-20131221200146/@comment-5761259-20131222040242

It's interesting. Gut says WoTA, but if you think about it, there's really only one arguement for it. You can get it faster. This is assuming you get less AP with it, which I feel is incorrect but I don't want to check.

The AD for pushing thing is irrelivant, you have so much mana and such low cds that you don't need to AA like ever. The active does like no damage and your spells are already almost always off cooldown so you'll be smashing their buttons not one of your number keys usually anyways. So now you have to ask yourself. Do you want AD and life steal you're never going to use

Muramana was good when it first came out because it dealt magic damage, but now that it deals physical, it's not as good as it was since you don't get armor pen on Ryze hopefully. AA also makes you effectively tankier, which Ryze likes cuz Ryze is already tanky. You could get both technically and it probably wouldn't be bad but you have to figure out what you want to sacrifice and which you want first, since one won't stack till the other transforms. All in all, I'd say AA Staff.