Akshan vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Akshan
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Akshan vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Riven
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several influential Akshan against Riven counter stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven..
Akshan normally has a similar longest kill spree as their opponent does. On average, they receives less damage than Riven. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Riven
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Who is Better, Akshan or Riven?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Riven, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes a bad counter for Riven.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Riven.
Additionally, Akshan also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter for Riven. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Riven. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Akshan versus Riven build include Rapid Firecannon, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better against Riven than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Riven with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Riven as Akshan, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Akshan vs Riven counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.1% winrate overall.
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