Lux vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Lux
based on 3,285 Lux vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Ryze
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Lux in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several significant Lux versus Ryze matchup statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ryze. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Lux often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Ryze. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lux and Ryze
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Who is Better, Lux or Ryze?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lux usually fairs equally well when taking on Ryze, with a 50.7% win rate. Therefore, Lux makes an ok counter for Ryze.
While Lux does have a higher winrate than Ryze, when on opposite teams, Lux also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lux into Ryze.
Furthermore, Lux also 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lux vs Ryze matchups, Lux is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Lux is a decent counter to Ryze. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Lux against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lux in order to counter Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux often gets less CS compared to Ryze. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Lux versus Ryze build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Lux included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Ryze than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lux had an average win rate of 50.7% when countering Ryze with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Ryze as Lux, Lux players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Lux vs Ryze counters, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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