Cho'Gath vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Cho'Gath
based on 2,419 Cho'Gath vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cho'Gath vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath against Riven
Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
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.
Cho'Gath vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Cho'Gath in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several vital Cho'Gath versus Riven counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between these two champions. As an example, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Riven..
Cho'Gath often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Riven. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Cho'Gath and Riven
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Who is Better, Cho'Gath or Riven?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Cho'Gath usually wins when taking on Riven, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Cho'Gath makes a good counter to Riven.
While Cho'Gath does have a higher win rate compared to Riven, when on opposite teams, Cho'Gath also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Cho'Gath into Riven.
Additionally, Cho'Gath also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Riven matchups, Cho'Gath is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Cho'Gath is a decent counter to Riven. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Cho'Gath against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Riven. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Cho'Gath versus Riven build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Cho'Gath combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Riven than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average winrate of 51.6% when countering Riven with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Riven as Cho'Gath, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Cho'Gath vs Riven LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.6% win rate overall.
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