Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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 some significant Yasuo versus Ryze matchup stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ryze..
Yasuo often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Ryze. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yasuo usually wins when facing off against Ryze, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Yasuo makes a good counter to Ryze.
While Yasuo does have a higher win rate compared to Ryze, when on opposite teams, Yasuo also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Yasuo into Ryzeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Yasuo has almost no 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Ryze matchups, Yasuo is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Yasuo is an above average counter for Ryze. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yasuo against Ryze.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo in order to counter Ryze during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Ryze. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Yasuo versus Ryze build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Ryze than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average winrate of 52.1% battling Ryze with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Ryze as Yasuo, Yasuo players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Yasuo vs Ryze counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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