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 here highlight some strategic Viego vs. Ryze counter statistics that can help us realize the differences between this set of champions. Viego’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, showing that Viego may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Ryze..
Viego normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their matchup does. Typically, they receives more damage than Ryze. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Viego usually wins when facing off against Ryze, with a 53.9% win rate. As a result, Viego makes a great counter to Ryze.
While Viego does have a higher winrate compared to Ryze, when facing one another, Viego also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less challenging character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Viego into Ryze.
Additionally, Viego has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Viego vs Ryze matchups, Viego 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 late stage team fights.
Viego is a great counter to Ryze. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Viego against Ryze.
To truly master Viego to counter Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viego often gets a lot less CS as Ryze. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Viego versus Ryze build include Trinity Force, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Viego included at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better vs. Ryze than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Viego boasted an average winrate of 53.9% when playing against Ryze with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Ryze as Viego, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Viego vs Ryze fights, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Viego are given for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.