Heimerdinger vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Heimerdinger
based on 511 Heimerdinger vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Ryze
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some influential Heimerdinger against Ryze counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ryze..
Heimerdinger usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Ryze. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Ryze
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Ryze?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Heimerdinger usually fairs equally well when playing against Ryze, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Heimerdinger makes an ok counter to Ryze.
While Heimerdinger does have a lower winrate compared to Ryze, when they face off with one another, Heimerdinger also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Heimerdinger into Ryzeas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Heimerdinger has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Heimerdinger 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 Heimerdinger against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger to counter Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Ryze. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Heimerdinger versus Ryze build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Ryze than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 49.9% when countering Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Ryze as Heimerdinger, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Heimerdinger vs Ryze battles, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Heimerdinger are presented for all skill levels, merged. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.