Riven vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Riven
based on 7,819 Riven vs Jax matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Jax
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 Jax
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
Riven vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several strategic Riven against Jax matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jax’s ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Jax..
Riven usually has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Jax. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Jax
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Who is Better, Riven or Jax?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Jax, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Riven makes an ok counter for Jax.
While Riven does have a lower winrate than Jax, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Jaxas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jax. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Jax matchups, Jax is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter for Jax. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Riven against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Jax during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Jax. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Riven versus Jax build include Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Jax than with many other typical builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 49.3% battling Jax with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Jax as Riven, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Riven vs Jax counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
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