Riven vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Riven
based on 5,972 Riven vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Riven vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several important Riven vs. Graves matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Graves..
Riven typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Graves. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Graves
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Who is Better, Riven or Graves?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when facing off against Graves, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Riven makes an ok counter to Graves.
While Riven does have a higher win rate compared to Graves, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Gravesas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Graves matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Riven is a decent counter for Graves. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter Graves during both the lane 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 listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average picks up much more CS relative to Graves. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Riven versus Graves build include Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Graves than with many other typical builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 50.4% battling Graves with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Graves as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Riven vs Graves matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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