Riven vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Riven
based on 4,645 Riven vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Riven vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some influential Riven against Garen counter stats that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Riven usually has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Garen. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Riven or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when playing against Garen, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Riven makes an ok counter for Garen.
While Riven does have a lower winrate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Garenas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter to Garen. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Garen during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Garen. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Riven versus Garen build include Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Garen than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 49.0% when playing against Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Garen as Riven, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Riven vs Garen battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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