Riven vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Riven
based on 2,485 Riven vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Gwen
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 Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Riven vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Riven in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several important Riven against Gwen matchup stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between these two champs. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Gwen..
Riven typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Gwen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Gwen
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Who is Better, Riven or Gwen?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when trying to fight Gwen, with a 53.3% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a great counter to Gwen.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Gwen, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Riven into Gwenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gwen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Gwen matchups, Riven is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Riven is a great counter to Gwen. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Riven against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Gwen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Gwen. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often 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 most crucial items to have in your Riven versus Gwen build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Gwen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 53.3% battling Gwen with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Gwen as Riven, you should equip 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 Gwen face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.3% winrate overall.
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