Riven vs Trundle
How to Beat Trundle as Riven
based on 6,199 Riven vs Trundle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Trundle Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Trundle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Trundle as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Trundle
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 Trundle
Trundle is very powerful at location-based combat. Try to draw him off of his Frozen Domain.
Make sure to get out of his Pillar of Ice as quickly as possible, as it significantly slows you down.
Riven vs Trundle Counter Stats
How to Counter Trundle with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some strategic Riven vs. Trundle matchup stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Trundle’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Trundle..
Riven normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Trundle. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Trundle
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Who is Better, Riven or Trundle?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually loses when taking on Trundle, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a bad counter for Trundle.
While Riven does have a lower win rate than Trundle, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Riven into Trundleas 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 Trundle. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Trundle matchups, Trundle is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Riven is a bad counter to Trundle. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Trundle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Trundle during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Trundle. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Riven versus Trundle build include Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Trundle than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 47.7% battling Trundle with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Trundle 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 rune combinations players chose for Riven vs Trundle counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Trundle as Riven are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.