Riven vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Riven
based on 1,709 Riven vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Jayce
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 Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Riven vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here show some vital Riven against Jayce counter stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jayce’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Jayce..
Riven typically has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Jayce. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Jayce
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Who is Better, Riven or Jayce?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when facing off against Jayce, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a good counter to Jayce.
While Riven does have a higher winrate compared to Jayce, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Jayceas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jayce. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Jayce matchups, Riven is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Riven is a decent counter for Jayce. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Riven against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Jayce during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Jayce. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Riven versus Jayce build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Jayce than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 51.1% when countering Jayce with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Jayce as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Riven vs Jayce counter picks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.1% win rate overall.
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