Riven vs Dr. Mundo
How to Beat Dr. Mundo as Riven
based on 1,981 Riven vs Dr. Mundo matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Dr. Mundo Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Dr. Mundo Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Dr. Mundo as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Dr. Mundo
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 Dr. Mundo
Try to coordinate high-damage abilities with your allies right after Dr. Mundo uses his ultimate, but if you're unable to kill him quickly with burst he will heal through the damage.
Try casting Ignite when Dr. Mundo uses Sadism to negate a large portion of its healing.
Riven vs Dr. Mundo Counter Stats
How to Counter Dr. Mundo with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some influential Riven versus Dr. Mundo matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Dr. Mundo’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Dr. Mundo. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Riven normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Dr. Mundo. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Riven or Dr. Mundo?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when playing against Dr. Mundo, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a good counter to Dr. Mundo.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Dr. Mundo, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Dr. Mundoas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Dr. Mundo. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Dr. Mundo matchups, Riven is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Riven is a decent counter for Dr. Mundo. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Riven against Dr. Mundo.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter Dr. Mundo during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Dr. Mundo. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Riven versus Dr. Mundo build consist of Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Dr. Mundo than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 51.1% when countering Dr. Mundo with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Dr. Mundo as Riven, you 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 used for Riven vs Dr. Mundo clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
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