will it hurt. whats your opinion

If you have a cylinder ridge more than likely the cylinder is tapered, or egg shaped how would you set your ring gap? IDK, maybe use a piston and push the rings way down into the cylinder bore and take readings there. Are you going to use a hone to break the glaze from the cylinders, maybe that would be enough to remove the cylinder ridge. I would check your piston landings just make sure there're not ring grooved.