Zed with Ryze
How to Synergize Zed and Ryze
based on 550 Zed with Ryze pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zed Ryze Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Ryze Counter Build
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Core Zed Items
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Summoner Spells
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Ryze
Tips for Playing as Zed with Ryze
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.
Advice to Understand How Ryze Will Play
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.
Zed Ryze Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ryze as Zed in LoL
The Zed Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zed sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ryze. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ryze helps Zed perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed tries to synergize with Ryze, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Ryze does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Ryze on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ryze. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ryze.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Ryze on the same side, he on average receives more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Ryze does a poor job of covering Zed during team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Ryze
Damage Types Compared
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Is Zed better when played alongside Ryze?
There is no ideal companion for Zed that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Ryze is a superb ally for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, he increases their win rate by 5.1% to 53.5%. This shows that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Zed and Ryze that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Ryze has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be careful when lining up Ryze allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Zed players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Zed and Ryze together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Ryze ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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How We Calculated Our Zed Ryze Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to work well with Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Zed and Ryze synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Ryze than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 53.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ryze with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.5% winrate overall.
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