Riven vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Riven
based on 5,578 Riven vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Hwei
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 Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Riven vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some valuable Riven versus Hwei matchup stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Hwei’s ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Hwei..
Riven often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Hwei. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Hwei
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Who is Better, Riven or Hwei?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when trying to fight Hwei, with a 54.1% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a great counter for Hwei.
While Riven does have a much higher win rate than Hwei, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Riven into Hweias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hwei. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Hwei 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Riven is a great counter to Hwei. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Hwei during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Hwei. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Riven versus Hwei build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Hwei than with many other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 54.1% battling Hwei with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Hwei as Riven, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Riven vs Hwei counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Hwei as Riven are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.