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.
If you are struck by Fear Beyond Death, do your best to avoid falling below the execution threshold (25% of your Maximum Health) until the effect times out.
Urgot relies heavily on blasting opponents with his legs, which have their own cooldowns and only detonate when he attacks in the direction they are facing. Avoid getting hit by multiple.
Urgot can deal and absorb tremendous amounts of damage with Purge, but slows himself while firing.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several vital Riven versus Urgot counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Urgot’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Urgot..
Riven normally has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Urgot. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually loses when playing against Urgot, with a 45.9% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a poor counter to Urgot.
While Riven does have a much lower win rate compared to Urgot, when facing one another, Riven also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Riven into Urgotas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Urgot. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Urgot matchups, Urgot is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Riven is a terribly counter for Urgot. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Riven against Urgot.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Urgot during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to 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 often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Urgot. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Riven versus Urgot build include Black Cleaver, Ravenous Hydra, and Spear of Shojin. When Riven incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Urgot than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 45.9% when playing against Urgot with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Urgot as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Riven vs Urgot counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.9% winrate overall.
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