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.
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
The Ryze Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Ryze perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ryze is an ally to Xin Zhao, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This may indicate that Xin Zhao does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played together with Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Ryze plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Ryze in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Ryze that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Xin Zhao is a pretty good ally for Ryze. By playing on the same team as Ryze, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 50.6%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Ryze and Xin Zhao that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Ryze. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Xin Zhao allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, Ryze players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Ryze and Xin Zhao together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of crowd control. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Ryze in order to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Ryze and Xin Zhao 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 did significantly better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 50.6% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
If you would like to see Ryze and Xin Zhao cooperations tips and stats for a an individual skill level, feel free to select one from the selection menu displayed above. At first, the statistics and build suggestions displayed are computed using all games finished with both champs.