Irelia vs Ryze Counter Pick

Ryze reaches 2,728 health at level 18, a number implying the long game belongs to him, yet the top lane record is 63.5% in Irelia‘s favour across 181 games on patch 16.13.1.

The reason is what surrounds that health pool. Ryze finishes with 93.4 armour against her 115.9 and starts with 22 against her 36, while Arcane Mastery converts mana into damage rather than into survivability. Rune Prison slows, and only roots a target already carrying Spell Flux, which is a two-cast sequence — long enough for Bladesurge to cross 550 units through a marked minion and for Ionian Fervor to begin stacking attack speed. Realm Warp is a delayed portal rather than a dash, so it saves nothing during the seconds after Flawless Duet has stunned him between two blades.

His damage is magic and meets her 30 base magic resist, which keeps him relevant in extended exchanges, and Overload’s cooldown resets reward disciplined casting order. He moves at 340 against her 335 and is rated 7 for difficulty to her 5, so he is both the harder champion to pilot and the more heavily punished one when a rotation is interrupted halfway through. Spell Flux is the ability worth tracking, since it debuffs everything near its target and upgrades what the rest of his kit does to them; stepping out of that spread reduces a 55-attack-damage mage to basic attacks from 550 range.