Nasus vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Nasus
based on 3,083 Nasus vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Riven
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several vital Nasus against Riven counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven..
Nasus usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Riven. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Riven
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Who is Better, Nasus or Riven?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually fairs equally well when playing against Riven, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes an ok counter for Riven.
While Nasus does have a lower winrate compared to Riven, when facing one another, Nasus also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Riven.
Moreover, Nasus has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nasus is a somewhat poor counter for Riven. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nasus against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nasus in order to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus on average gets a similar amount of CS as Riven. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nasus versus Riven build consist of Trinity Force, Hullbreaker, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs Riven than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Riven with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Riven as Nasus, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nasus vs Riven counter picks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
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