Mid · 228 games · KR

Ryze

Mid · 82% of games Top · 18%

Strongest when games end at 20–25 minutes (55%). On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−236 gold).

Win rate: 47.4%; ±6.5 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #48 of 64
Pick rate: 3.5%; ban 0.6%
Games: 228; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Ryze mid wins 47.4% of 228 ranked games in KR, rank 48 of 64 mid champions (tier C). Most players finish Rod of Ages first, at about 11:54.

The build at a glance

What most Ryze players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Boots

Mercury's Treads 9:48 · 27% of games

Item 1

Rod of Ages 12:11 · 98% · 220 games

Item 2

Archangel's Staff 18:51 · 100% · 178 games

Item 3

Actualizer 24:04 · 89% · 102 games

Item 4

Zhonya's Hourglass 28:42 · 70% · 19 games

Item 5 · late game

Rabadon's Deathcap 34:00 · 6 of 10 games

Runes

Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Resolve 18% of games · 48% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 98% of games · 47% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ghost 77% of games · 48% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Overload first 97% of games · 46% wins Skill orders →

When Ryze wins

Best when games end at 20–25′

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′44% wins42% of games · 95

Lasts 25′ or more49% wins57% of games · 129

Lanes

Watch out for Syndra, Twisted Fate

Hard Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Ryze games

First Baron: 82% against 27%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 27% 82% +56

First tower 25% 71% +45

Rift Herald 33% 68% +34

First dragon 32% 61% +28

First blood 38% 56% +18

First Voidgrubs 40% 55% +15

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Ryze plays

Fewer solo kills, more control wards

What stands out (10% or more) against the average mid laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Fewer solo kills a game0.9 against 1.6 · −46%

More control wards a game2.30 against 1.73 · +33%

Fewer multikills a game0.50 against 0.67 · −25%

Less damage to towers5451 against 6333 · −14%

Less time spent dead5.0s against 5.6s a minute · −12%

About average: gold.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~11:54

Item 2done ~18:54

Item 3done ~24:24

Item 4done ~28:18

Item 5done ~33:18

Most common full builds

Mercury's Treads › Rod of Ages › Archangel's Staff › Actualizer 56.0%75 games

Boots of Swiftness › Rod of Ages › Archangel's Staff › Actualizer › Zhonya's Hourglass 52.6%19 games

Mercury's Treads › Rod of Ages › Archangel's Staff › Zhonya's Hourglass 40.0%10 games

Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Rod of Ages › Archangel's Staff › Actualizer › Rabadon's Deathcap 40.0%5 games

Rod of Ages › Boots of Swiftness › Archangel's Staff › Actualizer › Void Staff 100.0%3 games

Sorcerer's Shoes › Rod of Ages › Archangel's Staff › Rabadon's Deathcap 66.7%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Rabadon's Deathcap 40%5

Actualizer 39%31

Archangel's Staff 34%50

Zhonya's Hourglass 14%7

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion47.3%224

Boots + Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion100.0%1

Doran's Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion + Tear of the Goddess100.0%1

Boots

Mercury's Treads ~9:4844.3%61

Boots of Swiftness ~10:2457.9%57

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~8:4835.8%53

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost47.7%176

Flash + Teleport50.0%48

Exhaust + Flash0.0%2

Skills

Max

W46.2%221

Max

W100.0%5

Start

W51.3%158

Start

Q40.5%37

Hard lanes

Watch out for Syndra, Twisted Fate

Easy lanes

Good into Locke, Sylas, Taliyah

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 5 of 8, still wins 3 of them

Expected: what Ryze's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (17)

Orianna 67% · 9

Akali 63% · 8

Anivia 71% · 7

Ahri 43% · 7

Talon 33% · 6

Zed 60% · 5

Cassiopeia 60% · 5

Yasuo 60% · 5

Lucian 50% · 4

Aurelion Sol 25% · 4

Zoe 0% · 4

Katarina 25% · 4

Hwei 0% · 3

Ekko 33% · 3

Xerath 67% · 3

Lissandra 67% · 3

Aurora 33% · 3

Ryze vs Twisted Fate · 17 games · Early read

Ryze does worse than expected here

35%winsexpected 42%

−919gold at 15′average −236

+2.6minions at 10′ahead or behind

18%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.06 a game

Gold lead against Twisted Fate Ryze's average lead

Against Twisted Fate, Ryze is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 82% of games, and still wins 29% of those. When ahead, Ryze wins 67%.

Ahead at 15′67% wins3 games

Behind at 15′29% wins14 games

Full Ryze vs Twisted Fate page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Ryze games: Zeri, Nautilus

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Nidalee47% · exp. 40% +615 games

Enemy bot Trouble

Zeri30% · exp. 48% −1820 games

Ezreal33% · exp. 49% −1615 games

Easier

Jhin69% · exp. 50% +2036 games

Tristana56% · exp. 48% +827 games

Yunara56% · exp. 49% +716 games

Enemy support Trouble

Nautilus38% · exp. 50% −1221 games

Alistar38% · exp. 43% −516 games

Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Ryze dies 2.0 times a game (average 2.2). 58% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 52% for the average mid laner. 24% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.0deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.2)

58%involve the enemy junglermore than average (52%)

76%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (68%)

57%with no teammate nearless than average (61%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Ryze dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

Ganks: 33% in your half of mid. Collapses: 24% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 57% in your half of mid.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average mid laner

What kills Ryze

Kind of death

Ryze Average

Gank 58% (avg 52%)Collapse 19% (avg 16%)1-v-1 24% (avg 32%)

Who gets the kill

Ryze Average

Bot laner 5% (avg 7%)Jungler 33% (avg 29%)Support 6% (avg 6%)Mid laner 50% (avg 52%)Top laner 5% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00–6:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Ryze Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 9:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Ryze; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Ryze wins fights

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 1.8 kills per death in their half of bot lane against 0.3 in your half of mid. Overall 0.9 kills per death.

Your half of mid 0.3 K/D 54 / 172

Their half of mid 1.4 K/D 103 / 73

The bot-side river 0.9 K/D 42 / 45

Your jungle 0.8 K/D 38 / 49

Their half of bot lane 1.8 K/D 49 / 28

Their jungle 1.5 K/D 39 / 26

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Ryze wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 27% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 26%). The team wins 65% when Ryze is there and 67% when not.

Ryze

What most Ryze players run

Best when games end at 20–25′

Watch out for Syndra, Twisted Fate

First Baron: 82% against 27%

Fewer solo kills, more control wards

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

Watch out for Syndra, Twisted Fate

Good into Locke, Sylas, Taliyah

Behind at 15 against 5 of 8, still wins 3 of them

Ryze does worse than expected here

Ryze does better than expected here

Ryze does worse than expected here

Ryze does better than expected here

Ryze does worse than expected here

Ryze does better than expected here

Ryze does worse than expected here

Ryze does better than expected here

Enemies that cost Ryze games: Zeri, Nautilus

Teammates that change Ryze's games

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Ryze

Ganks come at 3:00–6:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of bot lane, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in the bot-side river, loses them in your half of mid