Leona with Ryze
How to Synergize Leona and Ryze
based on 1,212 Leona with Ryze pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Ryze Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Ryze
Tips for Playing as Leona with Ryze
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Understand How Ryze Will Play
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.
Leona Ryze Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ryze as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona 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 negative change shows that Ryze helps Leona perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona is paired with Ryze, she sees a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This could signal that Ryze doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Ryze on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Ryze.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Ryze on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Ryze does a poor job of covering Leona during teamfights.
Synergies between Leona and Ryze
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Is Leona better when played alongside Ryze?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Leona that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Ryze is a relatively poor companion for Leona. By locking into the same side as Leona, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 50.2%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Leona and Ryze that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you should be very careful when finding Ryze teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Combined, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Leona and Ryze together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Ryze teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona to pair well with Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Leona and Ryze synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Ryze than with many other typical builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when playing alongside Ryze with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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