Riven vs Shyvana
How to Beat Shyvana as Riven
based on 1,517 Riven vs Shyvana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Shyvana Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Shyvana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shyvana as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Shyvana
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 Shyvana
All of Shyvana's basic abilities hit multiple enemies in dragon form. It's important for opposing champions to not cluster while fighting her.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
Riven vs Shyvana Counter Stats
How to Counter Shyvana with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Riven against Shyvana matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shyvana’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shyvana..
Riven usually has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Shyvana. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Shyvana
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Who is Better, Riven or Shyvana?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when taking on Shyvana, with a 50.2% win rate. As a result, Riven makes an ok counter to Shyvana.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Shyvana, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Riven into Shyvanaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shyvana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Shyvana matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Shyvana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Shyvana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically accumulates more CS relative to Shyvana. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Riven versus Shyvana build consist of Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Shyvana than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 50.2% battling Shyvana with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Shyvana as Riven, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Riven vs Shyvana LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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