Riven vs Kha'Zix
How to Beat Kha'Zix as Riven
based on 3,606 Riven vs Kha'Zix matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Kha'Zix Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Kha'Zix as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Kha'Zix
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 Kha'Zix
Taste Their Fear deals bonus damage to targets that are isolated. Gain an advantage by fighting near allied minions, champions, or turrets.
Leap and Void Assault have long cooldowns. Kha'Zix is very vulnerable when these are not available.
Riven vs Kha'Zix Counter Stats
How to Counter Kha'Zix with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some influential Riven against Kha'Zix matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kha'Zix’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kha'Zix..
Riven often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Kha'Zix. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Riven or Kha'Zix?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when facing off against Kha'Zix, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a good counter to Kha'Zix.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Kha'Zix, 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 should be careful when picking Riven into Kha'Zixas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kha'Zix. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Kha'Zix matchups, Riven is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Kha'Zix. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Riven against Kha'Zix.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Kha'Zix during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average picks up much more CS as Kha'Zix. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Riven versus Kha'Zix build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Kha'Zix than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 51.2% battling Kha'Zix with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Kha'Zix as Riven, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Riven vs Kha'Zix fights, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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