Skyscraper101 posted...Sorc boots
RoA
Tear
Frozen heart/iceborn gauntlet
Banshees veil
Void staff/abyssal sceptre
Is generally the best build for ryze. What you upgrade tear to is entiely up to you. If someone already has frozen heart, get iceborn. Same thing with abyssal sceptre
Wrong. You always upgrade tear into Muramana. Ryze scales off mana and Muramana boost his damage by ridiculous amounts since he builds nothing but mana anyways.
His AP ratios are crap. Even if muramana only adds an extra 100 damage to each attack (Q, W, auto) that's still more damage than you'd get from any AP item. His highest AP ratio is 60% so you'd need over 160 AP to get that damage. His Q scales even lower at 40% and his primary nuke so you'd need over 200 AP for it.
Plus muramana adds the extra damage to his melee so you do your combo and throw an auto attack in and you do crazy damage.