Riven vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Riven
based on 3,315 Riven vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Irelia Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Riven vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some influential Riven against Irelia counter stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Irelia..
Riven normally has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Riven or Irelia?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when playing against Irelia, with a 50.7% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes an ok counter for Irelia.
While Riven does have a higher winrate compared to Irelia, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Ireliaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Irelia matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Riven is a decent counter for Irelia. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Irelia during both the lane 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 suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Irelia. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Riven versus Irelia build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Irelia than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 50.7% when playing against Irelia with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Irelia as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Riven vs Irelia battles, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
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