Riven vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Riven
based on 4,794 Riven vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Riven vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some important Riven vs. Thresh matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences between the two. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Thresh. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Riven often has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Thresh. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Thresh
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Who is Better, Riven or Thresh?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when taking on Thresh, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Riven makes an ok counter for Thresh.
While Riven does have a higher win rate compared to Thresh, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Threshas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Thresh matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Thresh. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically picks up much more CS relative to Thresh. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Riven versus Thresh build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Thresh than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when countering Thresh with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Thresh as Riven, Riven players 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 players used for Riven vs Thresh clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Thresh as Riven are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.