Rakan vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Rakan
based on 1,022 Rakan vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rakan vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Rakan vs Ryze Counter Build
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Starter Items
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Core Rakan Items
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Rakan
Tips for Playing as Rakan against Ryze
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Rakan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several significant Rakan against Ryze counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Rakan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Rakan may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ryze. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Rakan normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Ryze. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rakan and Ryze
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Who is Better, Rakan or Ryze?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rakan usually wins when playing against Ryze, with a 52.8% win rate. Therefore, Rakan makes a good counter for Ryze.
While Rakan does have a higher win rate compared to Ryze, when on opposite teams, Rakan also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Rakan into Ryze.
Moreover, Rakan has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rakan vs Ryze matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Rakan is an above average counter for Ryze. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rakan against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan in order to counter Ryze during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rakan most often racks up a lot less CS compared to Ryze. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Rakan versus Ryze build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Ryze than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Rakan boasted an average winrate of 52.8% when playing against Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Ryze as Rakan, Rakan players should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Rakan vs Ryze LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Rakan are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.