Riven vs Hecarim
How to Beat Hecarim as Riven
based on 3,214 Riven vs Hecarim matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Hecarim Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hecarim as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Hecarim
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 Hecarim
Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
Riven vs Hecarim Counter Stats
How to Counter Hecarim with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several important Riven versus Hecarim matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hecarim’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Hecarim..
Riven typically has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Hecarim. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Riven or Hecarim?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when playing against Hecarim, with a 53.7% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a great counter to Hecarim.
While Riven does have a higher win rate compared to Hecarim, when facing one another, Riven also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Riven into Hecarimas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hecarim. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Hecarim 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Riven is a great counter to Hecarim. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Hecarim.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average racks up much more CS compared to Hecarim. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Riven versus Hecarim build include Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Hecarim than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 53.7% when countering Hecarim with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Hecarim as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Riven vs Hecarim LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.7% winrate overall.
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