Jayce vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Jayce
based on 1,709 Jayce vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jayce vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Riven
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Jayce in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several important Jayce vs. Riven counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s ratio of NaN, showing that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Riven..
Jayce often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Riven. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Jayce and Riven
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Who is Better, Jayce or Riven?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Jayce usually loses when facing off against Riven, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Jayce makes a bad counter for Riven.
While Jayce does have a lower win rate than Riven, when facing one another, Jayce also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Jayce into Rivenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Jayce has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jayce vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Jayce is a somewhat poor counter for Riven. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jayce against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Jayce to counter Riven during both the lane 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 mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Riven. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Jayce versus Riven build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Jayce bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jayce had an average winrate of 48.9% when playing against Riven with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Riven as Jayce, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Jayce vs Riven face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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