Orianna vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Orianna
based on 1,608 Orianna vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Riven Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Orianna Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Riven as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Riven
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Orianna in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some influential Orianna against Riven counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Riven. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Orianna usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Riven. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Orianna and Riven
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Orianna or Riven?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Orianna usually fairs equally well when taking on Riven, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Orianna makes an ok counter for Riven.
While Orianna does have a lower win rate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Orianna also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Orianna into Rivenas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Orianna has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Orianna 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 late stage team fights.
Orianna is a somewhat poor counter to Riven. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Orianna against Riven.
Other Champion Matchups Against Orianna
Additional Information for Orianna Players
How We Calculated Our Orianna vs Riven Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna in order to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Riven. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Orianna versus Riven build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Orianna had an average winrate of 49.2% when countering Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Riven as Orianna, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Orianna vs Riven counters, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Riven as Orianna are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.