Made a post about it before but the gist of it is this.

With double adaptive, Doran's ring + Tear + Dark Seal + Blasting + Elixir of Force. You one shot the caster minions with an EQ and kill melees with a full combo AT LEVEL 6,7,8.

This saves you at the very least 3s (closer to 5s) of waveclear. Making it, in my opinion, MANDATORY!

DO NOT SLEEP ON IT!

That 25% extra shield with the MR makes Mages and AP assassins regret waking up today. Yeah we lose on Rabadon's (rant again for why passive should be with levels) but on a mostly MR comp its more efficient.

Edit: AP* not MR

Where are they? Mel Aviv

Lvl 11+ you one-shot casters and 2-shot melees with EQ anyway.

For strong early waveclear (lvl 6+):

Runes: Double adaptive + Triple Tonic

Start: Doran’s Ring → recall at 750g for Tear + Dark Seal (≈51 AP)

At lvl 6, EQ leaves casters at 1 auto HP, so you can quickly Q/auto/E and pop all 3 with Q.

Get Blasting Wand (80+ AP), and at lvl 7 use Elixir of Wrath → you fully one-shot casters and 2-tap melees.

At lvl 9, you keep this waveclear even without the potion.

Result: Easy prio and near 10 CS/min.

Tradeoff: No Catalyst = weaker sustain, can get pushed out by good players. (If you are lower elo don't worry about this)

Edit: This post was for a friend who was picking Ryze and I thought I would repost it since I see alot "new to Ryze"

He went from 6-7 cs/m to this.

Not my acc obvs

They took it for me, the last thread that held my s̴a̸n̸i̶t̶y̵. I saw it fall, nerf after nerf. I was fine with it, because even if it was weaker, I knew phase rush was still there. But 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞, cast aside and replaced by this pitiful mockery of a rune... It broke me, down to my core, I felt it. The blue light faded into darkness.

There were signs, I know you saw them. The slipping sanity. The indefensible takes. The desperate hope placed in a future that was never 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍.

I waited for salvation a change, a patch, a rework. Something. But nothing came.

I fell into to flames. And amidst the inferno, I found warmth.

The fault is mine. The Rune mage is changing and I am resisting.

Runios

You taught me everything Ryze, but alas you did not teach me victory. A̷s̶ ̴i̵f̷ ̸y̶o̵u̸ ̶w̷a̵n̷t̸e̶d̸ ̵m̸e̷ ̴t̶o̶ ̴f̴a̶i̶l̵.

RYZE IS SO ASS FUCK ACTUALIZER FUCK THE SYSTEM FUCK PHREAK!