Shaco vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Shaco
based on 4,106 Shaco vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Riven
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Advice to Win Against Riven
All of Riven's damage is physical, prioritize high Armor if an opposing Riven gets out of control.
Riven has a great deal of mobility but she cannot move very far with any one skill. Rooting or silencing her during her combo will greatly reduce her effectiveness.
Riven excels at dueling multiple melee attackers at once, as she will be on an almost equal footing damage-wise. If pairing up against Riven, don't go in as double melee until she has expended her full combo.
Shaco vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Shaco in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some significant Shaco vs. Riven counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Riven..
Shaco often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Riven. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shaco and Riven
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Who is Better, Shaco or Riven?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shaco usually fairs equally well when facing off against Riven, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Shaco makes an ok counter for Riven.
While Shaco does have a lower win rate compared to Riven, when facing one another, Shaco also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Shaco into Rivenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Shaco has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Shaco is a somewhat poor counter for Riven. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Shaco against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Shaco to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco usually racks up a lot less CS compared to Riven. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Shaco versus Riven build include Stormsurge, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Riven than with many other common item sets. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 49.2% battling Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Riven as Shaco, Shaco players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Shaco vs Riven face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
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