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.
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
The Ryze Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, 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 Nocturne. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nocturne helps Ryze perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ryze is paired with Nocturne, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Nocturne provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played together with Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Additionally, when Ryze plays with Nocturne on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Ryze in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Ryze that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Nocturne is a decent teammate for Ryze. By playing on the same team as Ryze, he improves their win rate by 2.5% to 51.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Ryze and Nocturne that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Ryze. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Nocturne allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Ryze and Nocturne together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of engage potential. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ryze in order to pair well with Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Ryze and Nocturne synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Liandry's Torment, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing alongside Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Ryze players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Ryze and Nocturne pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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