Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some important Ahri against Ryze counter statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Ryze..
Ahri typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Ryze. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when taking on Ryze, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes an ok counter for Ryze.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate than Ryze, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Ryze.
Furthermore, Ahri has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Ryze. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Ryze.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to counter Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Ryze. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Ahri versus Ryze build include Luden's Tempest, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Ahri bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Ryze than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing against Ryze with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Ryze as Ahri, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Ahri vs Ryze counter picks, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
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