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.
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
The Ryze Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lucian helps Ryze perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ryze plays on the same team as Lucian, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Lucian does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played alongside Lucian on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lucian.
Moreover, when Ryze plays with Lucian on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Lucian does a decent job of covering Ryze during teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Ryze that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Lucian is a not very good ally for Ryze. By locking into the same team as Ryze, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 47.8%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Ryze and Lucian that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Ryze. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Lucian teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Ryze players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Ryze and Lucian together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of engage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Lucian 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 will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ryze to work well with Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Ryze and Lucian synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Luden's Companion, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Lucian than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Ryze and Lucian pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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