Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
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 stats shown here underscore some significant Urgot against Ryze counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Urgot’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, showing that Urgot may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ryze..
Urgot normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Ryze. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage 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, Urgot usually wins when trying to fight Ryze, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Urgot makes a good counter to Ryze.
While Urgot does have a higher win rate compared to Ryze, when they face off with one another, Urgot also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Urgot into Ryzeas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Urgot has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Urgot vs Ryze matchups, Urgot is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Urgot is a decent counter to Ryze. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Urgot against Ryze.
To truly master Urgot to counter Ryze 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 stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Urgot most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Ryze. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Urgot versus Ryze build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Urgot incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Ryze than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Urgot boasted an average win rate of 51.4% battling Ryze with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Ryze as Urgot, Urgot players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Urgot vs Ryze counters, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.4% winrate overall.
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