Katarina vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Katarina
based on 1,143 Katarina vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Ryze
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several significant Katarina vs. Ryze matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ryze. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Ryze. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Ryze
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Who is Better, Katarina or Ryze?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when trying to fight Ryze, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter to Ryze.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Ryze, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Ryzeas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Ryze. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Ryze. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They 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, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Katarina versus Ryze build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Ryze than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 48.9% battling Ryze with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Ryze as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Katarina vs Ryze fights, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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