Riven vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Riven
based on 2,765 Riven vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Aphelios
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 Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Riven vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several important Riven against Aphelios counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Aphelios..
Riven normally has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Aphelios. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Riven or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when facing off against Aphelios, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a good counter for Aphelios.
While Riven does have a higher winrate compared to Aphelios, when facing one another, Riven also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Riven into Apheliosas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Aphelios matchups, Riven is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Riven is a decent counter for Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Aphelios. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Riven versus Aphelios build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Aphelios than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 52.0% when countering Aphelios with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Aphelios as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Riven vs Aphelios fights, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.0% win rate overall.
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