Riven vs Vi
How to Beat Vi as Riven
based on 3,214 Riven vs Vi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Vi Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vi as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Vi
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 Vi
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
Riven vs Vi Counter Stats
How to Counter Vi with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some valuable Riven versus Vi counter stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vi’s ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Vi..
Riven usually has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Vi. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Vi
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Who is Better, Riven or Vi?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually loses when facing off against Vi, with a 46.6% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a bad counter to Vi.
While Riven does have a lower winrate compared to Vi, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Riven into Vias her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Riven is a terribly counter for Vi. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Riven against Vi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average picks up much more CS relative to Vi. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Riven versus Vi build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Vi than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 46.6% battling Vi with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Vi 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 combinations that we analyzed for Riven vs Vi battles, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Vi as Riven are shown for all skill levels, merged. To filter the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.