Riven vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Riven
based on 1,965 Riven vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Gangplank
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 Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Riven vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some critical Riven versus Gangplank matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gangplank’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Gangplank..
Riven typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Gangplank. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Riven or Gangplank?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when playing against Gangplank, with a 54.2% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a great counter to Gangplank.
While Riven does have a much higher win rate than Gangplank, when facing one another, Riven also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Riven into Gangplankas 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Gangplank matchups, Riven is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Riven is a great counter for Gangplank. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Gangplank. Champs who on average don't take 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Riven versus Gangplank build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Gangplank than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 54.2% battling Gangplank with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Gangplank as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Riven vs Gangplank counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.2% winrate overall.
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