Maokai vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Maokai
based on 5,194 Maokai vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Riven
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
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.
Maokai vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Maokai in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential Maokai vs. Riven counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Maokai usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Riven. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Riven
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Who is Better, Maokai or Riven?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Maokai usually wins when taking on Riven, with a 52.7% win rate. Therefore, Maokai makes a good counter to Riven.
While Maokai does have a higher winrate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Maokai also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Maokai into Riven.
Moreover, Maokai has a great deal of utility and CC, 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 a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Riven matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Maokai is a good counter for Riven. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Maokai against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Maokai 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai most often gets a lot less CS as Riven. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Maokai versus Riven build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Riven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 52.7% battling Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Riven as Maokai, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Maokai vs Riven LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.7% winrate overall.
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