Talk:Ryze/@comment-11348530-20130628083402/@comment-7006769-20130703011652

You DO NOT start with a mana crystal and wards. You need health pots or people force you to recall right away. A solid start is Fairy Charm + pots and wards since it builds into Tear and helps you sustain your mana. On your first B you obviously buy the Tear and after that your mana problems should be gone. Next on the list are boots and RoA.

General items are Glacial Shroud/FH if they have more than 1 AD champ. Abyssal vs AP heavy teams and in general to get some "magic pen". One of the two big spell vamp items (WotA if you run dual AP). Banshees can work vs some certain champs that heavily rely on landing that one skill (Malphite for example).

Oh and btw you can build your Tear into Seraphs or Muramana. May sound stupid but your Q procs it and you actually get more damage per Q than with a Seraphs. Seraphs is better in the defence tho thanks to the massive shield.