Talk:Ryze/@comment-81.182.178.41-20121012201057/@comment-4659726-20121015002518

AP is deceptively powerful on ryze though imo. Obviously you should have your major mana items such as rod of Ages, Frozen Heart, and Tear. But AP gives Ryze a good amount of returns now and nobody every does the math on them.

But what they trade for damage they obviously lose on durability as most AP items don't give you as much durability as a pure mana+def item like Banshee's.