While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
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 Nautilus 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, Nautilus 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 worsening shows that Ryze helps Nautilus perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Ryze, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Ryze does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside 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 Nautilus plays with Ryze on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Ryze does a poor job of covering Nautilus in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Nautilus that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Ryze is a pretty good teammate for Nautilus. By locking into the same side as Nautilus, he improves their win rate by 1.3% to 50.1%. This signals that there is a good synergy between Nautilus and Ryze that results in them performing better together than alone.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Nautilus. That means you should be very careful when arranging Ryze comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, Nautilus players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nautilus and Ryze together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Ryze ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to work well with Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Nautilus and Ryze synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Ryze than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Nautilus and Ryze pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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