Nidalee vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Nidalee
based on 853 Nidalee vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Riven
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Nidalee versus Riven counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Riven..
Nidalee normally has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Riven. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Riven
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Riven?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Riven, with a 42.9% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Riven.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Riven, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Rivenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter to Riven. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to counter Riven during both the laning 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 should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average gets a lot less CS relative to Riven. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Riven build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Riven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 42.9% when playing against Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Riven as Nidalee, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Nidalee vs Riven clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 42.9% winrate overall.
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