Elise vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Elise
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Elise vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Riven
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Elise in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some influential Elise against Riven matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven..
Elise normally has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Riven. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Elise and Riven
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Who is Better, Elise or Riven?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Elise usually fairs equally well when taking on Riven, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Elise makes an ok counter for Riven.
While Elise does have a higher win rate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Elise also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Elise into Rivenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Elise has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Elise vs Riven matchups, Elise is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Elise is a decent counter for Riven. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Elise against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Elise to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Riven. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Elise versus Riven build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Riven than with many other typical builds. In fact, Elise boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when countering Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Riven as Elise, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Elise vs Riven clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
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