Riven vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Riven
based on 914 Riven vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Riven vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some critical Riven against Elise matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Elise..
Riven typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Elise. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Elise
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Who is Better, Riven or Elise?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when playing against Elise, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Riven makes an ok counter for Elise.
While Riven does have a lower win rate than Elise, when facing one another, Riven also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Eliseas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Elise matchups, Elise is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter for Elise. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Riven against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Elise during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually racks up much more CS compared to Elise. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Riven versus Elise build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Elise than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when countering Elise with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Elise as Riven, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Riven vs Elise matchups, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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