Ryze
Hardest matchups for Ryze in Mid (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Ekko, 
Fizz, 
Swain. Easiest: 
Lucian, 
Mel, 
Orianna.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into RyzeOn the pro tier list
Ryze on patch 16.22
- Mid47.3%#84 of 91D5,186 games
- Top50.9%#36 of 103B1,651 games
- steady since 16.21
Ryze’s main role on patch 16.22 is Mid: a 47.3% win rate across 5,186 Emerald games, #84 of 91 Mid champions on the tier list (grade D), picked in 2.1% of games. Ryze is also played Top: a 50.9% win rate across 1,651 games, #36 of 103. Since patch 16.21, Ryze Mid has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.2 points across 31,259 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid77% of its games | D | 46.2%45.9% raw ±0.9 | 13,333 | 1.9%0.4% banned | 50.7%42.9% first time |
| Top22% of its games | C | 48.5%48.1% raw ±1.6 | 3,755 | 0.5%0.4% banned | 50.2%46.0% first time |
| Bot1% of its games | too few games | 48.8%41.1% raw ±8.1 | 146 | 0.0%0.4% banned | 51.5%46.7% first time |
| Support0% of its games | too few games | 49.1%36.9% raw ±12.2 | 65 | 0.0%0.4% banned | 51.5%47.1% first time |
| Jungle0% of its games | too few games | 50.0%50.0% raw ±13.9 | 50 | 0.0%0.4% banned | 51.4%47.4% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Ryze’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Ryze, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Ryze
Lane leads and team bans
What Ryze’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Ryze than the other team does in the same games (91,481 games). The other team banned before Ryze was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Ryze was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Ryze is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- Mana stack
48.1%12,896 games - AP sustained48.3%119 games
- AP burst
47.9%16 games - Enchanter
48.0%2 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Ryze does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
14,411 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Teleport43.8% · 7,067 games
Stormraider's SurgeSorcery + Resolve · 44.6%
Manaflow Band · Celerity · Gathering Storm · Bone Plating · OvergrowthShards: Attack Speed · Move Speed · Health
Start: Doran's Ring + Health Potion · 47.9%
Key items: Rod of Ages → Archangel's Staff · 48.1%
Boots: Ionian Boots of Lucidity · 50.3%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
Flash + Ignite49.1%354 games · 2.5% pick rate · same players: +1.0 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended- Flash + Teleport43.8%7,067 games · 49% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Exhaust + Flash44.4%325 games · 2.3% pick rate · same players: −0.1 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Flash + Ghost47.7%6,570 games · 46% pick rate · same players: −0.3 pts vs the usual
Keystones
Stormraider's Surge + Inspiration41.4%1,229 games · 8.5% pick rate · same players: +1.2 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Deathfire Touch + Precision49.3%699 games · 4.9% pick rate · same players: +0.7 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended- Stormraider's Surge + Resolve44.6%4,214 games · 29% pick rate · same players: +0.5 pts vs the usualRecommended
- Deathfire Touch + Resolve46.7%6,408 games · 44% pick rate · the usual choice
Minor runes with Stormraider's Surge
- Manaflow Band44.0%99% take it
- Celerity47.6%11% take it
Transcendence43.6%88% take it
- Gathering Storm44.6%76% take it
Waterwalking40.5%15% take it
Scorch45.1%8.7% take it
- Overgrowth44.5%95% take it
- Bone Plating44.5%93% take it
Second Wind45.5%5.0% take it
Unflinching46.4%4.1% take it
- Attack Speed45.5%90% take it
- Adaptive Force48.3%8.2% take it
- Move Speed46.5%33% take it
- Adaptive Force45.3%67% take it
- Health46.6%36% take it
- Health Scaling44.8%61% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist51.2%2.7% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Ryze’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Ryze’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Ryze does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Ryze wins 43.8%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 50.5%. That gap ranks it 45 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 350K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Ryze in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 50.7%460W 443L | 47%47% in any lane | 15% counter | −44 gold | — |
| Top | 49.1%2W 8L | 1%47% in any lane | 50% counter | +109 gold | — |
How much knowing Ryze pays
Players on their Mastery band win 6.7 points more on Ryze than first-timers do: #45 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Ryze players win 50.5%: #163 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 52.7% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
RyzeDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Ryze ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Azir, Orianna, Kassadin.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.