Hawkshot reveals units in brush. If a team fight is occuring in the jungle it can give you a significant advantage.
Volley arrows are blocked by the first enemy they hit, so keep your distance to avoid having them all absorbed by enemy frontliners.
Try to fire Enchanted Crystal Arrow in the same direction enemies are moving, so it is more likely to hit.
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 stats shown on this page clarify some significant Ashe vs. Ryze matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Ashe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ashe may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ryze..
Ashe usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Ryze. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ashe usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ryze, with a 50.2% win rate. As a result, Ashe makes an ok counter to Ryze.
While Ashe does have a higher winrate compared to Ryze, when they face off with one another, Ashe also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ashe into Ryze.
Moreover, Ashe also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ashe vs Ryze matchups, Ashe is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ashe is a decent counter to Ryze. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ashe against Ryze.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ashe in order to counter Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ashe typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Ryze. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Ashe versus Ryze build consist of Umbral Glaive, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Ashe incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Ryze than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Ashe boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Ryze with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Ryze as Ashe, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Ashe vs Ryze matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Ashe are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.