Riven vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Riven
based on 1,584 Riven vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Riven vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some significant Riven against Heimerdinger matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Heimerdinger..
Riven normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Heimerdinger. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Riven or Heimerdinger?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when facing off against Heimerdinger, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes an ok counter to Heimerdinger.
While Riven does have a lower win rate compared to Heimerdinger, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Heimerdingeras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter to Heimerdinger. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Riven versus Heimerdinger build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Heimerdinger than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when countering Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Heimerdinger 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 that we analyzed for Riven vs Heimerdinger face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% win rate overall.
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