Hwei vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Hwei
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Hwei vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Hwei vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Hwei
Tips for Playing as Hwei against Riven
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
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.
Hwei vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Hwei in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several influential Hwei vs. Riven matchup statistics that can help you realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Riven. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Hwei typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Riven. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hwei and Riven
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Who is Better, Hwei or Riven?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Hwei usually loses when trying to fight Riven, with a 45.9% win rate. Thus, Hwei makes a poor counter for Riven.
While Hwei does have a much lower winrate than Riven, when they face off with one another, Hwei also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more difficult champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hwei into Rivenas their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Hwei also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Hwei is a garbage counter to Riven. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Hwei against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Hwei to counter Riven during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Riven. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot 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 displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Hwei versus Riven build include Malignance, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Hwei included at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better when facing Riven than with most other common item sets. In fact, Hwei boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when playing against Riven with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Riven as Hwei, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Hwei vs Riven LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.9% win rate overall.
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