Nautilus vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Nautilus
based on 4,802 Nautilus vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nautilus vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Nautilus vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus against Riven
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
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.
Nautilus vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Nautilus in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several vital Nautilus versus Riven counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Nautilus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nautilus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Riven. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Nautilus usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Riven. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nautilus and Riven
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Who is Better, Nautilus or Riven?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nautilus usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Riven, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Nautilus makes an ok counter for Riven.
While Nautilus does have a higher win rate than Riven, when they face off with one another, Nautilus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nautilus into Riven.
Furthermore, Nautilus 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nautilus vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nautilus is a decent counter to Riven. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nautilus against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nautilus usually racks up a lot less CS as Riven. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nautilus versus Riven build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 50.0% battling Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating Riven as Nautilus, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nautilus vs Riven matchups, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
If you need to get Nautilus x Riven tips and builds for a an individual division, feel free to select one from the selection menu above. If viewing for the first time, the stats and guides displayed are computed using all games finished with both champions.