Riven vs Yuumi
How to Beat Yuumi as Riven
based on 2,618 Riven vs Yuumi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Yuumi Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Yuumi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yuumi as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Yuumi
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.
Riven vs Yuumi Counter Stats
How to Counter Yuumi with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some critical Riven versus Yuumi counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yuumi’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Yuumi. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Riven typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Yuumi. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Yuumi
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Who is Better, Riven or Yuumi?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when trying to fight Yuumi, with a 56.9% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a fantastic counter for Yuumi.
While Riven does have a much higher win rate than Yuumi, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Riven into Yuumias her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yuumi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Yuumi matchups, Riven is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Riven is a great counter to Yuumi. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Yuumi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Yuumi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average picks up much more CS as Yuumi. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Riven versus Yuumi build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Yuumi than with most other typical builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 56.9% when countering Yuumi with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Yuumi as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Riven vs Yuumi fights, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 56.9% win rate overall.
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