Nocturne vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Nocturne
based on 6,103 Nocturne vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nocturne vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Nocturne vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Riven
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
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.
Nocturne vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Nocturne in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several influential Nocturne versus Riven matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Riven..
Nocturne typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Riven. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nocturne and Riven
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Riven?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when trying to fight Riven, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Nocturne makes a good counter to Riven.
While Nocturne does have a higher win rate than Riven, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Nocturne into Riven.
Furthermore, Nocturne also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Riven matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nocturne is a decent counter for Riven. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nocturne against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to counter Riven during both the laning 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 suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne often gets a lot less CS as Riven. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nocturne versus Riven build include Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Riven than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Riven as Nocturne, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Nocturne vs Riven LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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