Riven vs Wukong
How to Beat Wukong as Riven
based on 1,245 Riven vs Wukong matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Wukong Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Wukong as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Wukong
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 Wukong
Wukong becomes tougher to kill when surrounded by his enemies. Try to isolate him to gain an advantage.
Wukong will often use Decoy after Nimbus Strike. Try delaying your abilities by a short amount of time to ensure that you're hitting the real Wukong.
Riven vs Wukong Counter Stats
How to Counter Wukong with Riven in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some strategic Riven versus Wukong counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Wukong’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Wukong..
Riven typically has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Wukong. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Wukong
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Who is Better, Riven or Wukong?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually loses when playing against Wukong, with a 46.5% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a bad counter for Wukong.
While Riven does have a lower win rate than Wukong, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Riven into Wukongas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Wukong. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Wukong matchups, Wukong is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Riven is a trash counter for Wukong. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Riven against Wukong.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Wukong during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often gets more CS as Wukong. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Riven versus Wukong build consist of Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Wukong than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 46.5% battling Wukong with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Wukong as Riven, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Riven vs Wukong fights, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.5% win rate overall.
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