Ryze vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Ryze
based on 382 Ryze vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ryze vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Ryze vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Ryze
Tips for Playing as Ryze against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Ryze vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Ryze in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some significant Ryze versus Zilean counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zilean..
Ryze often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Zilean. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ryze and Zilean
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Who is Better, Ryze or Zilean?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually loses when taking on Zilean, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Ryze makes a poor counter for Zilean.
While Ryze does have a lower win rate compared to Zilean, when they face off with one another, Ryze also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ryze into Zileanas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ryze has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a much lower 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 terribly counter to Zilean. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ryze against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ryze to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze typically gets much more CS relative to Zilean. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Ryze versus Zilean build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Zilean than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ryze had an average winrate of 46.6% when countering Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Zilean as Ryze, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Ryze vs Zilean counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
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