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Ryze Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 4,948 gamesUpdated

48.4%win rate0.2%pick0.4%ban

Who counters Ryze

How to build Ryze

Sorcerer's Shoes→Rod of Ages→Actualizer→Seraph's Embrace

Sorcerer's Shoes → Rod of Ages → Actualizer → Seraph's Embrace

51.8% win rate 34% of games 1,110 games
RunesSorceryStormraider's SurgeManaflow BandTranscendenceGathering StormResolveBone PlatingOvergrowth32% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport61%
Skills
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Overload
24578
Rune Prison
314151718
Spell Flux
19101213
Realm Warp
61116
StartSapphire CrystalRefillable PotionSapphire Crystal, Refillable Potion
Full Ryze build →
48.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 47.2% over 10,557 gamesPatch 26.21: 48.4% over 4,948 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
45.7%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
0.4%ban rate
▲ Upwas Tier 3 last patch
40.0%under 22 min
50.1%over 32 min

Ryze Top gets worse as the elo rises. 48.4% across Silver and above, but 45.7% once you look at Emerald and up. Sites that only sample high elo will show you the second number. Both are real; which one applies depends on the games you are actually playing.

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 40–45m
MASTER+
Ryze champion portraitT RyzevsRumble champion portraitT Rumble
12 / 12 / 10

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Rod of Ages→Archangel's Staff→Actualizer→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQERWEEWRWW
Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Ryze champion portraitT RyzevsJayce champion portraitT Jayce
0 / 3 / 1

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Rod of Ages

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQEREE
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Ryze champion portraitT RyzevsCamille champion portraitT Camille
0 / 6 / 0

Build

Boots|Rod of Ages→Archangel's Staff

Spells & runes

GhostFlash|

Skills

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Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 46.5% win rate · 32% of games · 1,255 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeManaflow BandTranscendenceGathering Storm
ResolveBone PlatingOvergrowth
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 45.3% win rate · 9% of games · 351 games
SorceryStormraider's SurgeManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport61%48.6%3,047 games
  • FlashGhostFlash + Ghost26%46.9%1,288 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes35%Ionian Boots of Lucidity19%Plated Steelcaps12%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 48.7% win rate

Ryze build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Actualizer1st
  2. Seraph's Embrace2nd
  3. Rod of Ages3rd
12% of games that reach a third item take this path55.1% win rate390 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Ryze →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 4,953 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Item 14,953 games
Item 24,476 games
Item 33,260 games
Item 41,528 games
Item 5503 games

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
35% · 48.8% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
19% · 47.4% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
12% · 50.5% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
12% · 50.4% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
11% · 50.1% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
5% · 56.5% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Seraph's Embrace›Rod of Ages+Sorcerer's Shoes4% of games · 36.4% win rate · 217 games
  2. Seraph's Embrace›Rod of Ages+Ionian Boots of Lucidity3% of games · 34.7% win rate · 144 games
  3. Rod of Ages›Seraph's Embrace+Sorcerer's Shoes3% of games · 46.6% win rate · 131 games
  4. Actualizer›Seraph's Embrace›Rod of Ages+Sorcerer's Shoes3% of games · 53.2% win rate · 126 games
  5. Rod of Ages+Boots2% of games · 22.0% win rate · 100 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Ryze against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Ryze's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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