Nunu & Willump vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Nunu & Willump
based on 2,789 Nunu & Willump vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Riven
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
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.
Nunu & Willump vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stats provided here feature some vital Nunu & Willump versus Riven counter stats that may help you realize the differences between this pair of champions. Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Nunu & Willump usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Riven. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Riven
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Riven?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when taking on Riven, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Nunu & Willump makes a bad counter to Riven.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Riven, when on opposite teams, Nunu & Willump also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nunu & Willump into Riven.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a terribly counter to Riven. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump in order to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Riven. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Riven build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Riven than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 46.6% when countering Riven with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Riven as Nunu & Willump, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Riven battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.6% winrate overall.
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