Rammus vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Rammus
based on 2,024 Rammus vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rammus vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Rammus vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Rammus
Tips for Playing as Rammus against Riven
Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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.
Rammus vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Rammus in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several vital Rammus versus Riven counter stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Rammus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Rammus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Riven. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Rammus typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Riven. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rammus and Riven
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Rammus or Riven?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rammus usually fairs equally well when taking on Riven, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Rammus makes an ok counter to Riven.
While Rammus does have a higher win rate than Riven, when they face off with one another, Rammus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Rammus into Riven.
Additionally, Rammus has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rammus 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 allied champions during team fights.
Rammus is a decent counter for Riven. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rammus against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rammus to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rammus typically picks up a lot less CS relative to Riven. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Rammus versus Riven build include Thornmail, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Riven than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Rammus boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Riven as Rammus, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Rammus vs Riven battles, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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