Ryze vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Ryze
based on 598 Ryze vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ryze vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Ryze vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Ryze
Tips for Playing as Ryze against Alistar
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.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Ryze vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Ryze in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several critical Ryze versus Alistar counter statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Ryze usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ryze and Alistar
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Who is Better, Ryze or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ryze usually loses when playing against Alistar, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, Ryze makes a poor counter to Alistar.
While Ryze does have a lower win rate than Alistar, when they face off with one another, Ryze also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ryze into Alistaras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ryze has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Ryze is a somewhat poor counter for Alistar. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ryze against Alistar.
Other Champion Matchups Against Ryze
Additional Information for Ryze Players
How We Calculated Our Ryze vs Alistar Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ryze in order to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze on average accumulates much more CS compared to Alistar. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Ryze versus Alistar build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Alistar than with most other common builds. In fact, Ryze boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when playing against Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Alistar as Ryze, Ryze players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Ryze vs Alistar counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
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