Riven vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Riven
based on 1,060 Riven vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Riven vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Riven in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several influential Riven vs. Ryze matchup statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Ryze..
Riven typically has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Ryze. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Ryze
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Who is Better, Riven or Ryze?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually loses when playing against Ryze, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a bad counter for Ryze.
While Riven does have a lower win rate compared to Ryze, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Ryzeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter to Ryze. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Ryze.
Other Champion Matchups Against Riven
Additional Information for Riven Players
How We Calculated Our Riven vs Ryze Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Ryze. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Riven versus Ryze build consist of Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Ryze than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when countering Ryze with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Ryze as Riven, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Riven vs Ryze counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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