By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
the Rune Mage
Patch 26.20 · Stats from the 26.18 Master+ sample (4,331 games).
Ryze, the Rune Mage, scales his spells with bonus mana through Arcane Mastery and opens a portal for his team with Realm Warp. Deathfire Touch was his usual keystone in the Master+ count, mostly Mid and sometimes Top, and Rod of Ages, Archangel's Staff, Actualizer is the build bought far more than any other. Yasuo, Zed, Ekko and Locke beat him most often. LeBlanc he held the edge over.
Mage
Patch 26.18 · Mid · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 4,331 games · Preview sample
4,331
Games
Very High
Confidence
Win rate by lane
53.6%Win Rate
Flash
Ghost45.8%Win Rate
Flash
Teleport
This exact page: taken in 20.2% of games·46.2% win rate over 874 games.
Damaging a champion with an ability burns them over time.
Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana. After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.
All Move Speed bonuses are 7% more effective on you and gain 1% Move Speed.
Your first damaging ability hit every 10s burns champions.
After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you receive from them deal 30-60 (based on level) less damage. Duration: 1.5s Cooldown: 55s
Gain permanent max health when minions or monsters die near you.
Stormraider's Surge11.5% taken · 45.7% win499 games
Conqueror2.0% taken · 39.5% win86 games
Electrocute0.2% taken · 42.9% win7 gamesSorcery + Resolve65.7% taken · 46.3% win2,847 games
Sorcery + Inspiration16.2% taken · 45.0% win702 games
Sorcery + Precision15.6% taken · 48.9% win675 gamesWhich ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Ryze's most common path.
QPassively, Ryze's other basic abilities reset the cooldown of Overload and charge a rune.
Cooldown 5s · 40/38/36/34/32 Mana
WRyze traps a target in a cage of runes, damaging them and slowing their movement.
Cooldown 11/10.5/10/9.5/9s · 50/60/70/80/90 Mana
ERyze releases an orb of pure magical power that damages an enemy and debuffs all nearby enemies.
Cooldown 3.5/3.25/3/2.75/2.5s · 40/50/60/70/80 Mana
RPassively, Overload deals even more damage against targets with Flux.
Cooldown 180/160/140s · 100 ManaMax Q first, then E, then W. Take R whenever available (6 / 11 / 16).
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QOverload | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||||
| WRune Prison | W | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||||
| ESpell Flux | E | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||||
| RRealm Warp | R | R | R |
How Ryze performs against enemy mid laners
Recommended items by enemy team composition
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Dodge the primary — its rotation is one skillshot; sidestep it and the rest is chip
Punish the cooldown — Ryze is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 7/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
Trade on your terms — take the fight where its damage lands on nobody
PArcane Mastery
Ryze's spells deal extra damage based on his Bonus Mana, and he gains a percentage increase to his maximum Mana based on his Ability Power.
Passive — never cast
QOverload
Passively, Ryze's other basic abilities reset the cooldown of Overload and charge a rune. When Ryze casts Overload with 2 runes charged, he gains a brief burst of Move Speed.On cast, Ryze throws a charge of pure energy in a line, dealing damage to the first enemy struck. If the target has Flux on it, Overload deals extra damage and bounces to nearby enemies with Flux.
Cost 40/38/36/34/32 ManaCooldown 5sRange 1000
WRune Prison
Ryze traps a target in a cage of runes, damaging them and slowing their movement. If the target has Flux on it, they are instead rooted.
Cost 50/60/70/80/90 ManaCooldown 11/10.5/10/9.5/9sRange 615
ESpell Flux
Ryze releases an orb of pure magical power that damages an enemy and debuffs all nearby enemies. Ryze's spells have additional effects against the debuffed enemy.
Cost 40/50/60/70/80 ManaCooldown 3.5/3.25/3/2.75/2.5sRange 615
RRealm Warp
Passively, Overload deals even more damage against targets with Flux.On cast, Ryze creates a portal to a nearby location. After a few seconds, allies standing near the portal are teleported to the target location.
Cost 100 ManaCooldown 180/160/140sRange 3000
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Ryze in 6 patches. The latest is patch 26.19, published 2026-09-22.
Base Stats
QOverload
ESpell Flux
Between strong itemization options and best-in-class skirmish and roam potential demonstrated by his most skilled players, it's high time we put some restraints on the archmage, while giving him some help with bad solo queue matchups.
Base Stats
Ryze's early game trading has only gotten stronger with Deathfire Touch. For a champion known as a scaling combo mage, we feel his laning has gotten too unassailable. So like Orianna, we're tuning down his early game a bit to keep his power budget in the late game as he's intended to be.
RRealm Warp
You've seen it, we've seen it. We've revisited Ryze's ult and an unintuitive interaction causing champions to not warp when they'd otherwise expect to. This was an intentional mechanic that aimed to anticipate players' needs but as time has gone on, this predictive help has caused more confusion than it's worth.
WRune Prison
Ryze has risen up the ranks this season and is due for a reduction in power. While we're nerfing Phase Rush, we're also buffing Actualizer so we think he deserves a direct nerf in this patch. With his late game damage going up and the overall game being more lethal than we'd like, we're reducing some late game damage in kind.
WRune Prison
Ryze is currently stronger than he ought to be and risks taking over the mid lane pool at MSI this year, so we're delivering a small nerf to his early laning phase where his opponents don't have much room for counterplay.
WRune Prison
RRealm Warp
Ryze has lost a lot from recent itemization changes, and could use a boost. Giving him some power centered around his level 6 spike to enable him to get out there and make some plays. W - Rune Prison
Riot's data lists 15 looks for Ryze with their own art, the base skin included and 24 chroma variants.
Best ARAM build
This champion’s win rate on each patch the preview sample spans, over its own games there. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
| Stat | Ryze | Rank | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base health | 620 | =85th | 620 |
| Health per level | 124 | 2nd | 104 |
| Base armor | 22 | =151st | 30 |
| Armor per level | 4.7 | =42nd | 4.6 |
| Base magic resist | 32 | =32nd | 32 |
| Magic resist per level | 1.3 | =93rd | 1.55 |
| Base attack damage | 55 | =120th | 59 |
| Base attack speed | 0.658 | =54th | 0.656 |
| Attack speed per level | 2.11% | =107th | 2.5% |
| Move speed | 340 | =37th | 335 |
| Attack range | 550 | =9th | 175 |
| Stat | Level 1 | Per level | Level 18 | Rank at 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 620 | +124 | 2728 | 2nd of 173 |
| Mana | 300 | +70 | 1490 | 5th of 145 |
| Armor | 22 | +4.7 | 101.9 | =115th of 173 |
| Magic resist | 32 | +1.3 | 54.1 | =93rd of 173 |
Riot Data Dragon 16.20.1. Growth curve: League of Legends Wiki — Champion statistic.
Ryze, the Rune Mage, is a Mage champion in League of Legends. Riot rates the kit 7/10 for difficulty, 2/10 for attack, 2/10 for defense and 10/10 for magic. Ryze spends Mana and has 15 skins with their own art. Ryze's health per level of 124 is the 2nd-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20.
Widely considered one of the most adept sorcerers on Runeterra, Ryze is an ancient, hard-bitten archmage with an impossibly heavy burden to bear. Armed with immense arcane power and a boundless constitution, he tirelessly hunts for World Runes—fragments of the raw magic that once shaped the world from nothingness. He must retrieve these artifacts before they fall into the wrong hands, for Ryze understands the horrors they could unleash on Runeterra.
Published by League of Legends on YouTube, 12 July 2016.
10 years old. League of Legends has been patched since, so watch it for how the kit plays, not for numbers — the rest of this page is written for the current patch.
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