Riven vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Riven
based on 1,136 Riven vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Riven vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some critical Riven versus Cassiopeia counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Cassiopeia..
Riven typically has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Cassiopeia. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Riven or Cassiopeia?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually loses when taking on Cassiopeia, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a poor counter to Cassiopeia.
While Riven does have a lower winrate than Cassiopeia, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Riven into Cassiopeiaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Riven is a terribly counter for Cassiopeia. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Cassiopeia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Cassiopeia. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities 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 exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Riven versus Cassiopeia build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Cassiopeia than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 47.1% battling Cassiopeia with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Cassiopeia as Riven, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Riven vs Cassiopeia matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Cassiopeia as Riven are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.