Akali vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Akali
based on 2,124 Akali vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Ryze
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Ryze
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.
Akali vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Akali in LoL
The stats provided here show some significant Akali against Ryze matchup stats that may help you understand the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ryze. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Akali often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Ryze. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Ryze
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Who is Better, Akali or Ryze?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually loses when trying to fight Ryze, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a bad counter for Ryze.
While Akali does have a lower win rate compared to Ryze, when facing one another, Akali also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akali into Ryzeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Akali also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Akali vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter to Ryze. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Akali against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali to counter Ryze during both the laning 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 mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Ryze. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Akali versus Ryze build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Ryze than with many other typical builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 48.5% battling Ryze with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Ryze as Akali, Akali players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Akali vs Ryze counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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