Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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 Irelia 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, Irelia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ryze. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Ryze helps Irelia perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia plays on the same team as Ryze, she sees a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This may signal that Ryze does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played with Ryze on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Ryze. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Ryze.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Ryze on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Ryze does a decent job of covering Irelia in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Irelia that will always be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Ryze is a very typical ally for Irelia. By locking into the same team as Irelia, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 49.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Irelia and Ryze that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Ryze teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Irelia and Ryze together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of engage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Ryze teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia to pair well with Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Irelia and Ryze synergy build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Ryze than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Ryze with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Ryze with Irelia are given for every ranked division. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.