Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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 some strategic Ahri versus Ryze counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ryze..
Ahri typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Ryze. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when facing off against Ryze, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes an ok counter to Ryze.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate compared to Ryze, when facing one another, Ahri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Ryze.
Moreover, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Ryze. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Ryze.
To truly master Ahri in order to counter Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Ryze. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Ahri versus Ryze build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Ryze than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 49.5% when countering Ryze with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Ryze as Ahri, Ahri players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Ahri vs Ryze LoL games, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
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