Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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 underscore several strategic Caitlyn against Ryze counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, showing that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ryze..
Caitlyn typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Ryze. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Caitlyn usually wins when facing off against Ryze, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Caitlyn makes a good counter for Ryze.
While Caitlyn does have a higher win rate compared to Ryze, when facing one another, Caitlyn also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Caitlyn into Ryze.
Furthermore, Caitlyn has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Ryze matchups, Caitlyn is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Caitlyn is a decent counter to Ryze. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Caitlyn against Ryze.
To truly master Caitlyn in order to counter Ryze during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Ryze. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Caitlyn versus Ryze build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Rapid Firecannon. When Caitlyn incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Ryze than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 51.2% battling Ryze with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Ryze as Caitlyn, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Caitlyn vs Ryze battles, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.2% win rate overall.
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