Kayle vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Kayle
based on 3,183 Kayle vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Riven
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some influential Kayle vs. Riven matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven..
Kayle typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Riven. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayle and Riven
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Who is Better, Kayle or Riven?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kayle usually wins when facing off against Riven, with a 51.8% win rate. As a result, Kayle makes a good counter to Riven.
While Kayle does have a higher winrate compared to Riven, when on opposite teams, Kayle also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kayle into Rivenas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayle also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, 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 a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Riven matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kayle is a decent counter for Riven. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kayle against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kayle in order to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Riven. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Kayle versus Riven build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Rylai's Crystal Scepter. When Kayle included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Riven than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average win rate of 51.8% battling Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Riven as Kayle, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Kayle vs Riven counters, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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