Riven vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Riven
based on 3,643 Riven vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Rakan
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 Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Riven vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here show several strategic Riven vs. Rakan matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between these two champions. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Riven often has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Rakan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Rakan
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Who is Better, Riven or Rakan?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually loses when facing off against Rakan, with a 47.9% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Riven does have a lower win rate compared to Rakan, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Riven into Rakanas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Riven is a garbage counter to Rakan. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Riven against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Rakan during both the early game 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 above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually racks up much more CS compared to Rakan. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Riven versus Rakan build include Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Rakan than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Rakan with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Rakan as Riven, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Riven vs Rakan counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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