Ahri vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Ahri
based on 3,285 Ahri vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Riven
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Ahri in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some significant Ahri vs. Riven counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Riven..
Ahri typically has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Riven. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Riven
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Who is Better, Ahri or Riven?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Riven, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes an ok counter for Riven.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate compared to Riven, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ahri into Riven.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri 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.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter to Riven. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Riven.
Other Champion Matchups Against Ahri
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri typically gets a similar amount of CS as Riven. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot 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 reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Ahri versus Riven build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Riven than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 49.2% when playing against Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Riven as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Ahri vs Riven counters, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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