Garen vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Garen
based on 4,645 Garen vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Riven
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here feature some critical Garen against Riven matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven..
Garen often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Riven. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Riven
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Who is Better, Garen or Riven?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Garen usually wins when playing against Riven, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a good counter for Riven.
While Garen does have a higher win rate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Garen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Garen into Riven.
Furthermore, Garen has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Riven matchups, Garen is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Garen is a decent counter for Riven. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Garen against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Riven. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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 require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Garen versus Riven build include Dead Man's Plate, Force of Nature, and Stridebreaker. When Garen used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Riven than with many other typical builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 51.0% when playing against Riven with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Riven as Garen, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Garen vs Riven battles, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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