Riven vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as Riven
based on 1,542 Riven vs Naafiri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Naafiri
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.
Riven vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some influential Riven against Naafiri counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Naafiri’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Naafiri..
Riven typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Naafiri. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Riven or Naafiri?
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 facing off against Naafiri, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes an ok counter to Naafiri.
While Riven does have a higher win rate compared to Naafiri, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Naafirias 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 Naafiri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting 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 Naafiri matchups, Riven is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Riven is a decent counter for Naafiri. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Riven against Naafiri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Naafiri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Naafiri. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Riven versus Naafiri build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Naafiri than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 50.6% battling Naafiri with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Naafiri as Riven, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Riven vs Naafiri LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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