Riven vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Riven
based on 4,119 Riven vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Riven vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several strategic Riven vs. Leona matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Riven typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Leona
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Who is Better, Riven or Leona?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually loses when trying to fight Leona, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a poor counter to Leona.
While Riven does have a lower winrate than Leona, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Riven into Leonaas 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Riven is a trash counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically gets much more CS as Leona. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Riven versus Leona build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Leona than with most other typical builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 46.8% when countering Leona with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Leona as Riven, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Riven vs Leona matchups, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Leona as Riven are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.