Riven vs Annie
How to Beat Annie as Riven
based on 1,869 Riven vs Annie matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Annie Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Annie as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Annie
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 Annie
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
Riven vs Annie Counter Stats
How to Counter Annie with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several valuable Riven versus Annie counter stats that may help us grasp the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Annie’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Annie..
Riven often has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes more damage than Annie. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Annie
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Who is Better, Riven or Annie?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when facing off against Annie, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Riven makes an ok counter to Annie.
While Riven does have a higher winrate than Annie, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Riven into Annieas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Annie. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Annie matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Riven is a decent counter for Annie. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Annie.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for 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.
Riven typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Annie. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly 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 exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Riven versus Annie build include Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Annie than with many other typical builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 50.1% battling Annie with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Annie as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Riven vs Annie LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.1% winrate overall.
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