Ryze with Nasus
How to Synergize Ryze and Nasus
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Ryze Nasus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ryze and Nasus
Tips for Playing as Ryze with Nasus
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 Nasus Will Play
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Ryze Nasus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nasus as Ryze in LoL
The Ryze Nasus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nasus, 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 Nasus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nasus helps Ryze perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ryze is an ally to Nasus, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This may signal that Nasus does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played alongside Nasus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nasus.
Moreover, when Ryze plays with Nasus on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Nasus does a decent job of covering Ryze in team fights.
Synergies between Ryze and Nasus
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Is Ryze better when played alongside Nasus?
There is no perfect companion for Ryze that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Nasus is a decent teammate for Ryze. By playing on the same side as Ryze, he improves their win rate by 1.8% to 50.8%. This shows that there is a good bond between Ryze and Nasus that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Nasus has a lower difficulty than Ryze. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Nasus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, Ryze players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Ryze and Nasus together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much cover. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Nasus ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 pair well with Nasus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Ryze and Nasus synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Luden's Companion. When Ryze used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Nasus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Ryze had an average winrate of 50.8% when playing alongside Nasus with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Ryze and Nasus pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Nasus with Ryze are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.