Nasus vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Nasus
based on 498 Nasus vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Ryze
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
Advice to Win Against Ryze
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
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.
Nasus vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Nasus in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several strategic Nasus versus Ryze counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ryze..
Nasus typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Ryze. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Ryze
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Who is Better, Nasus or Ryze?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nasus usually wins when playing against Ryze, with a 56.2% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a fantastic counter for Ryze.
While Nasus does have a much higher win rate than Ryze, when on opposite teams, Nasus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Nasus into Ryze.
Additionally, Nasus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Ryze matchups, Nasus is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nasus is a great counter for Ryze. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nasus 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 presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Ryze. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nasus versus Ryze build include Divine Sunderer, Spirit Visage, and Frozen Heart. When Nasus combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Ryze than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 56.2% when playing against Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Ryze as Nasus, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Nasus vs Ryze counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 56.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ryze as Nasus are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.