Ryze vs Caitlyn
How to Beat Caitlyn as Ryze
based on 3,327 Ryze vs Caitlyn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ryze vs Caitlyn Matchup Summary
Best Ryze vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Caitlyn as Ryze
Tips for Playing as Ryze against Caitlyn
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
Advice to Win Against Caitlyn
Keep behind allied minions if Caitlyn is harassing you with Piltover Peacemaker (it deals less damage with each subsequent target).
You can intercept Ace in the Hole's missile from hitting an ally if you stand in its path.
Ryze vs Caitlyn Counter Stats
How to Counter Caitlyn with Ryze in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some strategic Ryze vs. Caitlyn counter stats that may help you realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Caitlyn’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Caitlyn..
Ryze normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Caitlyn. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ryze and Caitlyn
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Who is Better, Ryze or Caitlyn?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually loses when playing against Caitlyn, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Ryze makes a bad counter to Caitlyn.
While Ryze does have a lower win rate compared to Caitlyn, when they face off with one another, Ryze also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Ryze into Caitlynas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ryze has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Caitlyn. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Caitlyn matchups, Caitlyn is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ryze is a somewhat poor counter to Caitlyn. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ryze against Caitlyn.
Other Champion Matchups Against Ryze
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How We Calculated Our Ryze vs Caitlyn Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ryze to counter Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Caitlyn. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Ryze versus Caitlyn build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Ryze included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Caitlyn than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Ryze boasted an average win rate of 48.8% battling Caitlyn with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Caitlyn as Ryze, Ryze players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Ryze vs Caitlyn counters, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
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