Lulu vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Lulu
based on 1,857 Lulu vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lulu vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Lulu vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Lulu
Tips for Playing as Lulu against Riven
Glitterlance can be fired at odd angles depending on where your cursor is - Moving your cursor closer to Pix and Lulu will change your area of effect size considerably.
Consider casting Help, Pix! on ranged attackers for the Pix boost and Wild Growth on Tanks or Fighters for the added initiation power.
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.
Lulu vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Lulu in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several critical Lulu versus Riven matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Lulu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lulu may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Riven. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Lulu normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Riven. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lulu and Riven
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Who is Better, Lulu or Riven?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lulu usually loses when taking on Riven, with a 45.9% win rate. As a result, Lulu makes a bad counter for Riven.
While Lulu does have a much lower win rate compared to Riven, when facing one another, Lulu also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lulu into Riven.
Moreover, Lulu also has a good 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lulu vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Lulu is a garbage counter to Riven. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lulu against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lulu to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lulu on average gets a lot less CS as Riven. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Lulu versus Riven build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Ardent Censer. When Lulu used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Riven than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Lulu boasted an average win rate of 45.9% battling Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Riven as Lulu, Lulu players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Lulu vs Riven counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.9% win rate overall.
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