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.
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
The stats provided here highlight several influential Ryze vs. Hwei matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the two. Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hwei’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Hwei..
Ryze usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Hwei. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually wins when trying to fight Hwei, with a 53.7% win rate. Thus, Ryze makes a great counter to Hwei.
While Ryze does have a higher win rate compared to Hwei, when facing one another, Ryze also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Ryze into Hweias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ryze also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hwei. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Hwei matchups, Ryze is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ryze is a great counter for Hwei. Focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ryze against Hwei.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ryze in order to counter Hwei 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Hwei. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Ryze versus Hwei build include Seraph's Embrace, Liandry's Torment, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Hwei than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 53.7% battling Hwei with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Hwei as Ryze, Ryze players should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Ryze vs Hwei battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.7% win rate overall.
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