Katarina vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Katarina
based on 4,295 Katarina vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Riven
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here show several influential Katarina against Riven matchup stats that can help you realize the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven..
Katarina often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Riven. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Riven
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Who is Better, Katarina or Riven?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Riven, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter for Riven.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Katarina into Rivenas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This often 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 Katarina vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Katarina is a trash counter to Riven. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Riven. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Katarina versus Riven build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when countering Riven with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Riven as Katarina, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Katarina vs Riven matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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