Kai'Sa vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Kai'Sa
based on 1,480 Kai'Sa vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Ryze
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some strategic Kai'Sa versus Ryze matchup stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ryze..
Kai'Sa often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Ryze. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Ryze
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Ryze?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when taking on Ryze, with a 45.9% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Ryze.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower winrate than Ryze, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kai'Sa into Ryze.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a terribly counter to Ryze. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Ryze.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kai'Sa
Additional Information for Kai'Sa Players
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa usually gets a similar amount of CS as Ryze. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Ryze build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kai'Sa used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Ryze than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 45.9% battling Ryze with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Ryze as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Kai'Sa vs Ryze fights, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Kai'Sa are presented for all skill levels combined. To filter the statistics and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.