Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
The stats shown on this page feature some strategic Ryze versus Aatrox counter stats that can help us explain the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aatrox’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Aatrox..
Ryze typically has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Aatrox. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually loses when trying to fight Aatrox, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Ryze makes a poor counter to Aatrox.
While Ryze does have a lower winrate than Aatrox, when on opposite teams, Ryze also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ryze into Aatroxas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ryze also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aatrox. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Aatrox matchups, Aatrox is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Ryze is a somewhat poor counter for Aatrox. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ryze against Aatrox.
If you would like to truly master Ryze in order to counter Aatrox during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze most often gets a similar amount of CS as Aatrox. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ryze versus Aatrox build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Aatrox than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Ryze had an average winrate of 48.7% when countering Aatrox with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Aatrox as Ryze, you should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Ryze vs Aatrox fights, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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