Ryze with Gragas
How to Synergize Ryze and Gragas
based on 350 Ryze with Gragas pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ryze Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Ryze vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ryze and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Ryze with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Ryze Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Ryze in LoL
The Ryze Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gragas helps Ryze perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ryze tries to synergize with Gragas, he observes a little drop in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Gragas does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played alongside Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gragas.
Additionally, when Ryze plays with Gragas on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Gragas does a poor job of covering Ryze during teamfights.
Synergies between Ryze and Gragas
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Is Ryze better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no one best ally for Ryze that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, Gragas is a very bad companion for Ryze. By playing on the same team as Ryze, he decreases their win rate by -7.0% to 42.0%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Ryze and Gragas that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Ryze. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Gragas comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Ryze players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Ryze and Gragas together, you may not be granting your other allies much AD. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Ryze in order to synergize with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Ryze and Gragas synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Gragas than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 42.0% helping carry Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 42.0% winrate overall.
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