Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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 Illaoi 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, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ryze. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ryze helps Illaoi perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi is paired with Ryze, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Ryze provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with Ryze on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Ryze.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Ryze on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Ryze does a poor job of protecting Illaoi during team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Illaoi that will always be her ideal ally. However, Ryze is a not very good ally for Illaoi. By being on the same side as Illaoi, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 48.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Illaoi and Ryze that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means you must be cautious when finding Ryze allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Illaoi and Ryze together, you may not be granting your other allies much utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Ryze teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Illaoi to work well with Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Illaoi and Ryze synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Ryze than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 48.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Ryze with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Illaoi and Ryze pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Ryze with Illaoi are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.