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 shown on this page emphasize some important Qiyana vs. Ryze matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Qiyana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Qiyana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ryze..
Qiyana normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Ryze. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Qiyana usually fairs equally well when playing against Ryze, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Qiyana makes an ok counter for Ryze.
While Qiyana does have a higher winrate than Ryze, when facing one another, Qiyana also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Qiyana into Ryzeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Qiyana 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 is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Qiyana vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Qiyana is a decent counter for Ryze. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Qiyana against Ryze.
To truly master Qiyana to counter Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Qiyana often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Ryze. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Qiyana versus Ryze build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Qiyana included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Ryze than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Qiyana boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing against Ryze with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Ryze as Qiyana, Qiyana players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Qiyana vs Ryze counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
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