Kog'Maw vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Kog'Maw
based on 808 Kog'Maw vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kog'Maw vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Riven
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
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.
Kog'Maw vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some vital Kog'Maw vs. Riven counter stats that can help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Riven..
Kog'Maw usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Riven. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Riven
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Riven?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kog'Maw usually loses when trying to fight Riven, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Kog'Maw makes a poor counter for Riven.
While Kog'Maw does have a lower winrate compared to Riven, when facing one another, Kog'Maw also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kog'Maw into Riven.
Additionally, Kog'Maw 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kog'Maw is a garbage counter to Riven. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kog'Maw against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw in order to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Riven. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kog'Maw versus Riven build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when countering Riven with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Riven as Kog'Maw, Kog'Maw players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kog'Maw vs Riven matchups, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.2% win rate overall.
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