Riven vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Riven
based on 1,145 Riven vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Riven vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several critical Riven against Kalista matchup stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Riven usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Kalista
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Who is Better, Riven or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when trying to fight Kalista, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a good counter for Kalista.
While Riven does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Kalistaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Kalista 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 team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Kalista. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kalista. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Riven versus Kalista build consist of Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Kalista than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 51.7% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Kalista as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Riven vs Kalista fights, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kalista as Riven are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.