Malphite vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Malphite
based on 5,884 Malphite vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malphite vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Malphite vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Malphite
Tips for Playing as Malphite against Riven
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
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.
Malphite vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Malphite in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several significant Malphite versus Riven counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Malphite’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Malphite may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Riven..
Malphite usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Riven. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Malphite and Riven
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Who is Better, Malphite or Riven?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Malphite usually wins when taking on Riven, with a 52.3% win rate. Thus, Malphite makes a good counter to Riven.
While Malphite does have a higher win rate than Riven, when they face off with one another, Malphite also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Malphite into Riven.
Moreover, Malphite also has a lot 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 a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Malphite vs Riven matchups, Malphite is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Malphite is a good counter to Riven. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Malphite against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Malphite in order to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malphite usually gets a similar amount of CS as Riven. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Malphite versus Riven build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Randuin's Omen. When Malphite used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Riven than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Malphite had an average win rate of 52.3% when countering Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Riven as Malphite, Malphite players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Malphite vs Riven LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.3% win rate overall.
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