Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Seraphine versus Ryze counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Seraphine’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Seraphine may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ryze. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Seraphine normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Ryze. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Seraphine usually fairs equally well when playing against Ryze, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Seraphine makes an ok counter for Ryze.
While Seraphine does have a lower winrate compared to Ryze, when facing one another, Seraphine also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Seraphine into Ryze.
Additionally, Seraphine has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Seraphine vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Seraphine is a somewhat poor counter for Ryze. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Seraphine against Ryze.
If you would like to truly master Seraphine in order to counter Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Seraphine often gets less CS compared to Ryze. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Seraphine versus Ryze build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Celestial Opposition, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Seraphine used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Ryze than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Seraphine boasted an average winrate of 49.4% battling Ryze with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Ryze as Seraphine, Seraphine players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Seraphine vs Ryze counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Seraphine are shown for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.