Leona vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Leona
based on 4,119 Leona vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Riven
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Leona in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some vital Leona against Riven counter statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Riven. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Riven. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Riven
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Who is Better, Leona or Riven?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when taking on Riven, with a 53.2% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a great counter to Riven.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Riven.
Moreover, Leona has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Riven matchups, Leona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Leona is a great counter to Riven. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Leona against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona in order to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona usually gets a lot less CS as Riven. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Leona versus Riven build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 53.2% battling Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Riven as Leona, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Leona vs Riven clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Riven as Leona are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.