Riven vs Ivern
How to Beat Ivern as Riven
based on 1,441 Riven vs Ivern matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Ivern Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Ivern Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ivern as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Ivern
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 Ivern
Be careful when fighting Ivern alone if he has Daisy ready to help!
Ivern's brush has a long duration. Watch out for ambushes!
Ivern can be deceptively slippery. Be careful chasing him too far.
Riven vs Ivern Counter Stats
How to Counter Ivern with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several significant Riven vs. Ivern counter stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ivern’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ivern. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Riven often has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Ivern. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Ivern
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Who is Better, Riven or Ivern?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when playing against Ivern, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes an ok counter for Ivern.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Ivern, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Ivernas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ivern. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Ivern matchups, Ivern is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Ivern. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Riven against Ivern.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Ivern during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often picks up much more CS as Ivern. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Riven versus Ivern build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Ivern than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Ivern with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of defeating Ivern as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Riven vs Ivern matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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