Shyvana vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Shyvana
based on 1,517 Shyvana vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Riven
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Shyvana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several influential Shyvana against Riven matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven..
Shyvana normally has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives more damage than Riven. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shyvana and Riven
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Riven?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually fairs equally well when playing against Riven, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Shyvana makes an ok counter for Riven.
While Shyvana does have a lower win rate than Riven, when on opposite teams, Shyvana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Shyvana into Riven.
Additionally, Shyvana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Shyvana is a somewhat poor counter for Riven. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Shyvana against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shyvana to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana most often picks up less CS compared to Riven. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Shyvana versus Riven build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Shyvana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Riven than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Shyvana had an average winrate of 49.8% when countering Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Riven as Shyvana, Shyvana players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Shyvana vs Riven counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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