Riven vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Riven
based on 4,295 Riven vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Riven vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several valuable Riven versus Katarina counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Katarina..
Riven usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Katarina. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Katarina
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Who is Better, Riven or Katarina?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when trying to fight Katarina, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a good counter for Katarina.
While Riven does have a higher winrate compared to Katarina, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Riven into Katarinaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Katarina matchups, Riven is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Riven is an above average counter for Katarina. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Katarina during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Katarina. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Riven versus Katarina build include Black Cleaver, Ravenous Hydra, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Katarina than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 52.4% battling Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Katarina as Riven, you 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 players chose for Riven vs Katarina battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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