Talk:Ryze/@comment-25620056-20151029004852/@comment-5955640-20151029005455

Top, in mid you have too many long range champs to deal with and assassins scale more quickily into mid game than you. BUT if you are facing Veigar you should take mid because you can stack Mana and magic resistance and make Veigar's combo very weak while giving him a hard time.

In general you'll want one. Maybe two mana items that serve your purposes in making you tanky and giving you free damage and you'll want flat mana over mana regen because you'll basically never stop spamming spells eventually and that taxes the mana.

Go to top lane and abuse your ability to lock people down at a range but be aware that you'll still be quite weak. You just want to farm your tear up or rush a Rod of Ages. After awhile you should just buy some raw damage items. Rabadons and Void staff. Maybe Lich Bane if you feel like it or you haven't mastered the combo and thus auto attack between casts.