Tristana vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Tristana
based on 3,589 Tristana vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Riven
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several strategic Tristana vs. Riven counter statistics that can help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Riven..
Tristana usually has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Riven. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tristana and Riven
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Who is Better, Tristana or Riven?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tristana usually wins when taking on Riven, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Tristana makes a good counter to Riven.
While Tristana does have a higher win rate than Riven, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tristana into Riven.
Moreover, Tristana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Riven matchups, Tristana is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Tristana is a decent counter to Riven. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Tristana in order to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Riven. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Tristana versus Riven build include Phantom Dancer, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Riven than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 51.1% battling Riven with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Riven as Tristana, Tristana players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Tristana vs Riven fights, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
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