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.
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some important Ryze against Master Yi counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Master Yi..
Ryze often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Master Yi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually loses when playing against Master Yi, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Ryze makes a bad counter for Master Yi.
While Ryze does have a lower win rate than Master Yi, when facing one another, Ryze also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ryze into Master Yias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ryze has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Ryze is a somewhat poor counter to Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ryze against Master Yi.
To truly master Ryze to counter Master Yi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze often racks up much more CS as Master Yi. Champions who on average don't get 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 properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Ryze versus Master Yi build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Master Yi than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Ryze boasted an average win rate of 48.8% battling Master Yi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Master Yi as Ryze, you should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Ryze vs Master Yi face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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