Taric vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Taric
based on 1,195 Taric vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Riven
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
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.
Taric vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Taric in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some influential Taric vs. Riven matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Riven. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Taric normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Riven. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Riven
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Who is Better, Taric or Riven?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when taking on Riven, with a 53.2% win rate. Therefore, Taric makes a great counter to Riven.
While Taric does have a higher winrate than Riven, when facing one another, Taric also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Taric into Riven.
Moreover, Taric also has a very large 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 is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Riven matchups, Taric is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Taric is a great counter for Riven. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Taric against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric in order to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric usually gets a lot less CS as Riven. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Taric versus Riven build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Riven than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average win rate of 53.2% when playing against Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Riven as Taric, Taric players should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Taric vs Riven counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.2% win rate overall.
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