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.
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
The stats shown on this page show some valuable Ryze against Viego matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Viego’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Viego..
Ryze usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Viego. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually wins when taking on Viego, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Ryze makes a good counter for Viego.
While Ryze does have a higher win rate than Viego, when they face off with one another, Ryze also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ryze into Viegoas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Ryze also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viego. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Viego matchups, Ryze is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Ryze is a decent counter to Viego. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ryze against Viego.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ryze in order to counter Viego during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze typically picks up much more CS compared to Viego. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Ryze versus Viego build include Rod of Ages, Seraph's Embrace, and Rabadon's Deathcap. When Ryze included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Viego than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 52.0% when playing against Viego with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Viego as Ryze, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Ryze vs Viego counters, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Viego as Ryze are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.