Karma vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Karma
based on 3,523 Karma vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Karma vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Karma vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Karma
Tips for Playing as Karma against Riven
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
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.
Karma vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Karma in LoL
The stats provided here show several strategic Karma vs. Riven matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Karma’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Karma may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Riven. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Karma typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Riven. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Karma and Riven
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Who is Better, Karma or Riven?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Karma usually loses when facing off against Riven, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Karma makes a bad counter for Riven.
While Karma does have a lower winrate than Riven, when they face off with one another, Karma also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Karma into Riven.
Additionally, Karma also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Karma vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Karma is a garbage counter to Riven. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Karma against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Karma to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Karma often picks up less CS relative to Riven. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Karma versus Riven build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Karma combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Riven than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when countering Riven with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Riven as Karma, Karma players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Karma vs Riven clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
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