Draven vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Draven
based on 1,126 Draven vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Draven vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Draven vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Draven
Tips for Playing as Draven against Ryze
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
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.
Draven vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Draven in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some important Draven against Ryze matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Draven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Draven may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ryze..
Draven typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Ryze. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Draven and Ryze
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Who is Better, Draven or Ryze?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Draven usually wins when taking on Ryze, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Draven makes a good counter for Ryze.
While Draven does have a higher win rate compared to Ryze, when facing one another, Draven also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Draven into Ryzeas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Draven also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Draven vs Ryze matchups, Draven is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Draven is a decent counter to Ryze. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Draven against Ryze.
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Additional Information for Draven Players
How We Calculated Our Draven vs Ryze Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Draven to counter Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Draven most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Ryze. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Draven versus Ryze build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Draven incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Ryze than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Draven had an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Ryze as Draven, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Draven vs Ryze fights, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Draven are shown for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.