Nami vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Nami
based on 971 Nami vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Ryze Counter Build
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Core Nami Items
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Ryze
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Nami in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some vital Nami vs. Ryze matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ryze. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Nami normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Ryze. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nami and Ryze
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Nami or Ryze?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nami usually wins when trying to fight Ryze, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Nami makes a good counter for Ryze.
While Nami does have a higher win rate compared to Ryze, when facing one another, Nami also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nami into Ryze.
Furthermore, Nami also has a very large 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nami vs Ryze matchups, Nami is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nami is a decent counter to Ryze. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nami against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nami in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Ryze. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nami versus Ryze build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better versus Ryze than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nami had an average winrate of 51.9% when countering Ryze with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Ryze as Nami, Nami players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Nami vs Ryze counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.9% winrate overall.
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