Alistar vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Alistar
based on 2,253 Alistar vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Riven
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some significant Alistar against Riven counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Riven. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Riven. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Riven
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Who is Better, Alistar or Riven?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually loses when facing off against Riven, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a poor counter to Riven.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate than Riven, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Rivenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter for Riven. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically racks up a lot less CS as Riven. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Alistar versus Riven build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Riven than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when playing against Riven with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Riven as Alistar, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Alistar vs Riven LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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