Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
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 Pantheon 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, Pantheon sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ryze. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ryze helps Pantheon perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pantheon plays on the same team as Ryze, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Ryze does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Pantheon is played alongside Ryze on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ryze.
Additionally, when Pantheon plays with Ryze on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Ryze does a decent job of covering Pantheon during team fights.
There is no one best ally for Pantheon that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Ryze is a not very good ally for Pantheon. By playing on the same team as Pantheon, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 48.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Pantheon and Ryze that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Pantheon. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Ryze allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Pantheon and Ryze together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of cover. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Ryze ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Pantheon in order to work well with Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Pantheon and Ryze synergy build consist of Bloodsong, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Pantheon used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Ryze than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Pantheon boasted an average win rate of 48.3% helping carry Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Pantheon players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Ryze with Pantheon are displayed for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.