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.
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
The Ryze Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Ryze perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ryze is an ally to Katarina, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Katarina does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Additionally, when Ryze plays with Katarina on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Ryze during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Ryze that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Katarina is a pretty good companion for Ryze. By locking into the same side as Ryze, she raises their win rate by 1.5% to 50.5%. This demonstrates that there is a good synergy between Ryze and Katarina that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Ryze. That means Ryze players must be cautious when lining up Katarina allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Ryze and Katarina together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much protection for burst damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ryze in order to work well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Ryze and Katarina synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Katarina than with many other common builds. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 50.5% helping carry Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Ryze players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Ryze and Katarina pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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