Azir vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Azir
based on 2,212 Azir vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Riven
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Advice to Win Against Riven
All of Riven's damage is physical, prioritize high Armor if an opposing Riven gets out of control.
Riven has a great deal of mobility but she cannot move very far with any one skill. Rooting or silencing her during her combo will greatly reduce her effectiveness.
Riven excels at dueling multiple melee attackers at once, as she will be on an almost equal footing damage-wise. If pairing up against Riven, don't go in as double melee until she has expended her full combo.
Azir vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some strategic Azir versus Riven counter stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven..
Azir normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Riven. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Riven
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Who is Better, Azir or Riven?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when facing off against Riven, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Azir makes an ok counter to Riven.
While Azir does have a higher winrate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Rivenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Riven matchups, Azir is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Azir is a decent counter to Riven. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Azir against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir in order to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Riven. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Azir versus Riven build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Void Staff. When Azir combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 50.4% when countering Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Riven as Azir, Azir players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Azir vs Riven counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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