Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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 Kassadin Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kassadin sees a very large drop in his 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 Kassadin perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin is an ally to Ryze, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Ryze helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Ryze on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Ryze. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ryze.
Additionally, when Kassadin plays with Ryze on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Ryze does a poor job of covering Kassadin in team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Kassadin that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Ryze is a very bad companion for Kassadin. By locking into the same team as Kassadin, he lowers their win rate by -3.7% to 46.3%. This signals that there is a very bad bond between Kassadin and Ryze that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Ryze has a lower difficulty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Ryze allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Kassadin and Ryze together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Ryze ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Kassadin to work well with Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Kassadin and Ryze synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Lich Bane, and Malignance. When Kassadin combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Ryze than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 46.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Kassadin players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.3% winrate overall.
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