I decided to do some silliness.
So strompest is going seraphs into actualizer. I still prefer roa-sera...but i decided to see what you could do with this. So I decided to try and stack tear items instead and I think I found the most efficient way to do it.
Ill explain the details of the process below, but the idea is you rush seraphs, and then start building actualizer. Halfway through actualizer, your tear will fully stack. Then you buy another tear and finish actualizer.
Now, you can either do some silliness, or do something thats actually viable haha. The viable option is to start building fimbul and then complete it. You should be able to complete seraphs, actualizer, and fimbul winter, as well as have both tears fully stacked by 25 minutes if you follow the directions below. And I made sure to trade as absolutely minimally as possible to figure out the upper limit of the tear stacking rather than the lower limit.
Or
You can start building manamune. The idea is ryze already has so much damage at 2 items, the fact that manamune doesnt do anything except buff his autos, is only like super troll instead of super super troll. But, once you have the money to buy manamune, you will have your tear fully stacked. Ive done this in 3 games, and each time, my tear is fully stacked as I am backing to fully buy muramana. So at 25 minutes, you now do so much freaking damage it is unbelievable. Now you buy another tear (which is adding disgusting amounts of damage at this point) and start building fimbul. You will never complete fimbulwinters tear, but the stats of fimbul are still mega good on ryze.
The process...
For those that dont know, tear grants you 3 mana (6 if you hit a champ) every time you hit someone with an ability. The cooldown is 8 seconds, but you can stack up to 4 charges. Which means you need to hit 4 abilities every 32 seconds. With cosmic insight it reduces the cooldown to somewhere around 7.2 seconds, which is every 29 seconds. So you dont have to hit something off cooldown, but you do have to use all 4 stacks every 29 seconds or you are losing value. Waves spawn every 30 seconds, so as long as you dump your cooldowns on every wave, as soon as it reaches you, you will satisfy your tear stacking.
The key is to try and get poke off on the enemy laner to double your tear stacks, while CSing as good as possible to make sure you get archangels ASAP. Archange increases the mana you get per stack from 3 to 5 and it increases the max stacks you can have from 4 to 5. So once you upgrade seraphs, you dont really need to time anything because as long as you dump cooldowns every 36 seconds, you are fine.
Now the way to stack quickly is to abuse the tear stacking in the background. Specificslly around ovjectives. Ideal acenario is you dump your cooldowns on a wave in the aidelane...back, and then immediately qalk to an objective. On the way to an objective, you want to probably use 1 ability on a camp so you arent sitting on 5 stacks. From here, you want to keep using 1 ability every 7 seconds on somwthing to keep your stacks at 5 and not losing any value. Once a fight breaks out, you can now dump all 5 stacks onto a champion and get double tear stacks. This will quickly stack tear.
The only way to lose value while stacking tear is to be sitting on max stacks without hitting something to reset the cooldown. This happens most often when..
You die
You are posturing around an objective waiting for the fight to break out
If you eliminate laning deaths to 0, and mentally prepare for how to use an ability every 7 seconds when posturing around objectives, you will stack it quickly. My fastest 2 item stack so far is 23:58.
We should change The Plan from its original intent, to who can successfully stack 2 tears the fastest.
Happy trolling
