Riven vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Riven
based on 2,253 Riven vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Alistar
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Riven vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some important Riven against Alistar matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Alistar. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Riven normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Alistar
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Who is Better, Riven or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when taking on Alistar, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a good counter to Alistar.
While Riven does have a higher winrate than Alistar, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Riven into Alistaras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Alistar matchups, Riven is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Riven is a decent counter for Alistar. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Riven against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Alistar during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically accumulates much more CS as Alistar. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Riven versus Alistar build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Alistar than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when playing against Alistar with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Alistar as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Riven vs Alistar matchups, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.3% win rate overall.
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