Ryze with Bard
How to Synergize Ryze and Bard
based on 958 Ryze with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ryze Bard Synergy Summary
Best Ryze vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ryze and Bard
Tips for Playing as Ryze with Bard
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.
Advice to Understand How Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Ryze Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Ryze in LoL
The Ryze Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Ryze sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Ryze perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ryze plays on the same team as Bard, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Bard helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played with Bard 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 Bard.
Moreover, when Ryze plays with Bard on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Bard does a decent job of protecting Ryze in team fights.
Synergies between Ryze and Bard
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Is Ryze better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Ryze that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Bard is a fantastic companion for Ryze. By playing on the same side as Ryze, he increases their win rate by 3.7% to 52.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real bond between Ryze and Bard that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Ryze. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Bard teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Ryze players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Ryze and Bard together, you may not be providing your side much sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ryze in order to work well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Ryze and Bard synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Stormsurge, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Ryze had an average winrate of 52.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.7% winrate overall.
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