Template:C-top==Skill usage==
- Casting
Overload before your other spells will allow a second cast soon, due to its relatively short cooldown and 
Arcane Mastery. - Using
Rune Prison on melee heroes can effectively stall them from attacking you or your allies, improving the odds. 
Rune Prison can also be used to make a quick get away.- Rune Prison will not stop a ranged champion from attacking your allies within range; always take this into consideration when using it on champions such as Twitch or Kog'Maw.
- Try to use Spell Flux on groups of minions or a minion near a champion to hit them near towers.
- When encountering a single opponent, make sure you're sufficiently close for the Spell Flux to bounce off you.
- Desperate Power combined with Ryze's other abilities make farming gold easier.
- Desperate Power has a relatively short cooldown and can provide very good results against minions making it great for gold farming, and harassing enemy champions. The spell vamp can also help Ryze regain health.
- Cast Spell Flux, then Rune Prison and Overload to deal even more damage, due to the magic resistance reduction of Spell Flux.
Build usage
- Arcane Mastery synergizes very well with cooldown reduction. Therefore Glacial Shroud is a core item for Ryze giving him mana and armour allowing Ryze to be able to have a lot of damage and be tanky as well.
- Overload provides a passive 10% cooldown reduction at max rank, so Ryze only needs 30% more cooldown reduction from other sources to reach the 40% cap.
- Ryze's Overload and Rune Prison damage scales very well with mana, making defensive items like Glacial Shroud, Banshee's Veil and Rod of Ages surprisingly potent offensive boosts at the same time.
- Tear of the Goddess allows Ryze to more freely use his spells while passively increasing his mana pool, and in turn his magic damage. Late-game this can be built into Archangel's Staff for a high amount of Ability Power.
Recommended builds
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