Corki vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Corki
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Corki vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Corki vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Corki
Tips for Playing as Corki against Riven
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Advice to Win Against Riven
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.
All of Riven's damage is physical, prioritize high Armor if an opposing Riven gets out of control.
Corki vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Corki in LoL
The stats shown here show several vital Corki vs. Riven matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Corki’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Corki may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Riven..
Corki often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Riven. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Corki and Riven
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Who is Better, Corki or Riven?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Corki usually loses when playing against Riven, with a 46.6% win rate. Therefore, Corki makes a bad counter to Riven.
While Corki does have a lower win rate compared to Riven, when on opposite teams, Corki also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Corki into Riven.
Furthermore, Corki also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Corki vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Corki is a terribly counter to Riven. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Corki against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Corki 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Corki most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Riven. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Corki versus Riven build include Luden's Tempest, Muramana, and Ravenous Hydra. When Corki incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Riven than with most other common item sets. In fact, Corki boasted an average winrate of 46.6% battling Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Riven as Corki, Corki players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Corki vs Riven counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.6% win rate overall.
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