Riven vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Riven
based on 3,183 Riven vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Riven vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some vital Riven against Kayle counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayle’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kayle..
Riven often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Kayle. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Kayle
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Who is Better, Riven or Kayle?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually loses when facing off against Kayle, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a poor counter for Kayle.
While Riven does have a lower winrate than Kayle, when facing one another, Riven also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Riven into Kayleas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting 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 Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter to Kayle. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Kayle during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Kayle. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly 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 situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Riven versus Kayle build include Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Kayle than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 48.2% battling Kayle with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Kayle as Riven, you 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 builds players chose for Riven vs Kayle clashes, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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