How to play Ryze
Ryze – the Rune Mage – is based on our LoL Mid Tier List on patch 15.12 a A-Tier 
Mid champion. Based on ranked matches from summoners with a PLATINUM+ tier, Ryze has a win rate of 48.9%, a pick rate of 3.4%, a ban rate of 0.7% and an average KDA Ratio of 0.0, which shows that the 
Mage is in a good spot in the current meta of season 15. If you want to learn how to play Ryze on your matches, keep in mind that this champion is mechanically advanced to play in LoL. This Ryze guide will give you also an understanding on how to beat Ryze. Besides the upcoming Ryze Mid Build the position Top is a valid choice as well.
Pregame Build
In champion select you need to choose your Ryze runes and summoner spells. The best Ryze Mid Runes 15.12 are 
Sorcery as the primary path and 
Resolve as the secondary path. The most supportive Ryze keystone rune is 
Phase Rush. 
Flash and 
Teleport are the summoner spells, which fits this LoL Ryze Build the most.
Item Build on Ryze
The starter items for the best Ryze Build on patch 15.12 are 
Doran's Ring, 
Health Potion, Health Potion, and a 
Stealth Ward as the trinket. As the game progresses, the most popular Ryze items are 
Rod of Ages and 
Archangel's Staff. 
Mercury's Treads are the most bought Ryze boots by Pros. This Ryze Build will vastly increase your chances to gain LP and to climb the leaderboard in LoL.
Ryze Abilities
At the beginning of a match start to skill the ability 
Rune Prison on Ryze. As the match progresses, it is best to maximise 
Overload into 
Spell Flux and at last Rune Prison. Overload is a very strong ability of Ryze in order to build up a lead and dominate your opponents. The passive is called 
Arcane Mastery and there is no need to set it manually on a Ryze Build.
Biography
Read Ryze's bioWidely considered one of the most adept sorcerers on Runeterra, Ryze is an ancient, hard-bitten archmage with an impossibly heavy burden to bear. Armed with immense arcane power and a boundless constitution, he tirelessly hunts for World Runes—fragments of the raw magic that once shaped the world from nothingness. He must retrieve these artifacts before they fall into the wrong hands, for Ryze understands the horrors they could unleash on Runeterra.
Available Ryze Skins
Besides the Ryze build you can select a skin for Ryze. The best Ryze skins you can find below.
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Ryze would have been cold if his body wasn’t simmering with nervous energy. With all that weighed on him that day, the harsh Freljordian elements scarcely seemed to have an effect. Neither was he daunted by the distant howl of a hungry ice troll. He had come to do a job. Not one he relished, but one that had to be done, and one he could no longer avoid. - Featured Video: A Twist of Fate: BTS
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