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.
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
The stats shown here emphasize some important Ryze vs. Orianna matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Orianna..
Ryze typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Orianna. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ryze usually fairs equally well when playing against Orianna, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Ryze makes an ok counter to Orianna.
While Ryze does have a higher win rate than Orianna, when on opposite teams, Ryze also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ryze into Oriannaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ryze has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Orianna. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Orianna matchups, Orianna is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ryze is a decent counter to Orianna. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ryze against Orianna.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ryze to counter Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Orianna. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Ryze versus Orianna build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Stormsurge, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Orianna than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ryze boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing against Orianna with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Orianna 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 combinations players used for Ryze vs Orianna clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Orianna as Ryze are given for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.