Riven vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Riven
based on 2,012 Riven vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Riven vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several significant Riven vs. Illaoi matchup statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champs. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Illaoi..
Riven often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Illaoi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Riven or Illaoi?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually loses when playing against Illaoi, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a poor counter to Illaoi.
While Riven does have a lower win rate than Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Riven into Illaoias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a lower 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 terribly counter for Illaoi. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Riven against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Illaoi during both the lane 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 displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Illaoi. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Riven versus Illaoi build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Illaoi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 47.2% when countering Illaoi with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Illaoi as Riven, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Riven vs Illaoi matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.2% win rate overall.
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