Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several valuable Aatrox vs. Ryze matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ryze..
Aatrox normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Ryze. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Aatrox usually wins when trying to fight Ryze, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Aatrox makes a good counter to Ryze.
While Aatrox does have a higher winrate compared to Ryze, when on opposite teams, Aatrox also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Aatrox into Ryze.
Additionally, Aatrox also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Ryze matchups, Aatrox is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Aatrox is a decent counter to Ryze. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Aatrox against Ryze.
To learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox to counter Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox typically gets a similar amount of CS as Ryze. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Aatrox versus Ryze build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Ryze than with most other common builds. In fact, Aatrox had an average win rate of 51.3% when countering Ryze with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Ryze as Aatrox, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Aatrox vs Ryze fights, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Aatrox are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.