Bard vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Bard
based on 1,013 Bard vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Ryze
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Advice to Win Against Ryze
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.
Bard vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Bard in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several vital Bard versus Ryze matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ryze. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Ryze. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Ryze
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Who is Better, Bard or Ryze?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Ryze, with a 52.6% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter to Ryze.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Ryze, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Ryzeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Ryze matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Bard is a good counter for Ryze. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard to counter Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Ryze. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Bard versus Ryze build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Ryze than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when playing against Ryze with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Ryze as Bard, Bard players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Bard vs Ryze face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Bard are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.