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 emphasize some important Yuumi against Ryze counter statistics that can help you realize the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Ryze. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Yuumi typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Ryze. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when trying to fight Ryze, with a 41.1% win rate. Thus, Yuumi makes a poor counter to Ryze.
While Yuumi does have a much lower win rate than Ryze, when facing one another, Yuumi also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Yuumi into Ryze.
Moreover, Yuumi has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Yuumi is a terribly counter for Ryze. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yuumi against Ryze.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yuumi in order to counter Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi typically racks up a lot less CS as Ryze. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Yuumi versus Ryze build consist of Mikael's Blessing, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Yuumi combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Ryze than with many other common item sets. In fact, Yuumi boasted an average win rate of 41.1% battling Ryze with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Ryze as Yuumi, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Yuumi vs Ryze face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 41.1% winrate overall.
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