Ryze with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Ryze and Kai'Sa
based on 1,336 Ryze with Kai'Sa pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ryze Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Ryze vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Ryze Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
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Guide to Synergizing Ryze and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Ryze with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Ryze Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Ryze in LoL
The Ryze Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kai'Sa helps Ryze perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ryze plays on the same team as Kai'Sa, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Kai'Sa supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played alongside Kai'Sa on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Ryze plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Kai'Sa does a poor job of protecting Ryze during team fights.
Synergies between Ryze and Kai'Sa
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Is Ryze better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no ideal ally for Ryze that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Kai'Sa is a terrible teammate for Ryze. By locking into the same team as Ryze, she drops their win rate by -3.4% to 45.6%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Ryze and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Ryze. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Kai'Sa comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Ryze and Kai'Sa together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of utility. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kai'Sa ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Additional Information for Ryze Players
How We Calculated Our Ryze Kai'Sa Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Ryze in order to pair well with Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Ryze and Kai'Sa synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ryze bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kai'Sa than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 45.6% when playing alongside Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Ryze players should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Kai'Sa with Ryze are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.