Riven vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Riven
based on 7,146 Riven vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Akali
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Riven vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several influential Riven versus Akali counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Akali’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Akali..
Riven often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Akali. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Akali
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Who is Better, Riven or Akali?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when trying to fight Akali, with a 52.0% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a good counter for Akali.
While Riven does have a higher winrate compared to Akali, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Akalias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Akali matchups, Riven is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Riven is a decent counter to Akali. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Akali. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Riven versus Akali build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Akali than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 52.0% when playing against Akali with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Akali as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Riven vs Akali battles, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.
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