Illaoi vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Illaoi
based on 2,012 Illaoi vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Riven
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Illaoi in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some important Illaoi against Riven counter statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between the two. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Riven..
Illaoi often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. On average, she receives more damage than Riven. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Riven
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Riven?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when playing against Riven, with a 52.8% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes a good counter for Riven.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate than Riven, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Illaoi into Riven.
Moreover, Illaoi also has almost no amount of utility and CC, 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 a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Riven matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Illaoi is an above average counter to Riven. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Riven. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Illaoi versus Riven build include Sterak's Gage, Hullbreaker, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 52.8% battling Riven with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Riven as Illaoi, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Illaoi vs Riven fights, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.8% win rate overall.
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