Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
The Gwen Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ryze. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ryze helps Gwen perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen is an ally to Ryze, she sees a little drop in her total damage dealt. This change could signal that Ryze does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played together with Ryze on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Ryze. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Ryze.
Additionally, when Gwen plays with Ryze on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Ryze does a poor job of covering Gwen in teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Gwen that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, Ryze is a very bad teammate for Gwen. By being on the same team as Gwen, he decreases their win rate by -4.3% to 43.8%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Gwen and Ryze that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Gwen. That means Gwen players need to be careful when finding Ryze allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Gwen players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Gwen and Ryze together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of protection for burst damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Ryze ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Gwen in order to pair well with Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Gwen and Ryze synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Gwen included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Ryze than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gwen had an average win rate of 43.8% helping carry Ryze with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Gwen players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Ryze with Gwen are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.