Anivia vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Anivia
based on 1,677 Anivia vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Anivia vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Anivia vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Anivia
Tips for Playing as Anivia against Riven
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
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.
Anivia vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Anivia in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several valuable Anivia vs. Riven matchup statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Riven..
Anivia normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Riven. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Anivia and Riven
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Who is Better, Anivia or Riven?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Anivia usually wins when facing off against Riven, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Anivia makes a good counter to Riven.
While Anivia does have a higher win rate than Riven, when on opposite teams, Anivia also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Anivia into Rivenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Anivia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Riven matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Anivia is a decent counter to Riven. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Anivia against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Anivia in order to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia typically gets a similar amount of CS as Riven. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Anivia versus Riven build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Anivia used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Riven than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Anivia had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Riven as Anivia, Anivia players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Anivia vs Riven counters, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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