Ryze with Zed
How to Synergize Ryze and Zed
based on 550 Ryze with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ryze Zed Synergy Summary
Best Ryze vs Zed Counter Build
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Core Ryze Items
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Guide to Synergizing Ryze and Zed
Tips for Playing as Ryze with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Ryze Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Ryze in LoL
The Ryze Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zed helps Ryze perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ryze is an ally to Zed, he gets a sizeable uptick in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Zed provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Zed.
Additionally, when Ryze plays with Zed on the same team, he often takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Ryze during team fights.
Synergies between Ryze and Zed
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Is Ryze better when played alongside Zed?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Ryze that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Zed is a fantastic teammate for Ryze. By playing on the same side as Ryze, he increases their win rate by 4.5% to 53.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real strategic relationship between Ryze and Zed that results in them performing better together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Ryze. That means Ryze players don't need to be careful when arranging Zed comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Ryze and Zed together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough cover. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Ryze Zed Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Ryze to pair well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your Ryze and Zed synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Zed than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 53.5% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Ryze players 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 rune sets players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.5% winrate overall.
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