Riven vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Riven
based on 1,195 Riven vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Taric
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 Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Riven vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some important Riven versus Taric counter stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taric’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Taric. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Riven often has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Taric. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Taric
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Who is Better, Riven or Taric?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually loses when facing off against Taric, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a poor counter for Taric.
While Riven does have a lower win rate compared to Taric, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Riven into Taricas her relative depth means that 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 Taric. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Taric matchups, Taric 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 teamfights.
Riven is a bad counter to Taric. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Taric 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 tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically racks up much more CS relative to Taric. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Riven versus Taric build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Taric than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 46.8% when countering Taric with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Taric as Riven, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Riven vs Taric LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
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