Nunu & Willump with Ryze
How to Synergize Nunu & Willump and Ryze
based on 729 Nunu & Willump with Ryze pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nunu & Willump Ryze Synergy Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nunu & Willump and Ryze
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump with Ryze
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
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.
Nunu & Willump Ryze Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ryze as Nunu & Willump in LoL
The Nunu & Willump 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, Nunu & Willump sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ryze. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ryze helps Nunu & Willump perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nunu & Willump tries to synergize with Ryze, he gets a moderate decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Ryze doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nunu & Willump is played with Ryze 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 synergisticly with Ryze.
Additionally, when Nunu & Willump plays with Ryze on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Ryze does a decent job of protecting Nunu & Willump during team fights.
Synergies between Nunu & Willump and Ryze
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Is Nunu & Willump better when played alongside Ryze?
There is no perfect synergy for Nunu & Willump that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Ryze is a terrible teammate for Nunu & Willump. By playing on the same side as Nunu & Willump, he drops their win rate by -3.3% to 44.2%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Nunu & Willump and Ryze that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Ryze has a greater difficulty than Nunu & Willump. That means you should be cautious when finding Ryze comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Nunu & Willump players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nunu & Willump and Ryze together, you may not be providing your side very much sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Ryze teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your 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
To truly master Nunu & Willump to pair well with Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Nunu & Willump and Ryze synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Liandry's Torment. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Ryze than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 44.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nunu & Willump and Ryze pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Ryze with Nunu & Willump are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.