Riven vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Riven
based on 808 Riven vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw
The range on Living Artillery increases each rank.
Run away from Kog'Maw after he dies!!!!
Kog'Maw doesn't have a good escape ability, so he is especially prone to ganks.
Bio-Arcane Barrage allows Kog'Maw to kill Baron Nashor extremely early. It can be valuable to ward Nashor when Kog'Maw completes his Blade of the Ruined King.
Riven vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several valuable Riven versus Kog'Maw matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences between this set of champs. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kog'Maw..
Riven often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Kog'Maw. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Riven or Kog'Maw?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when playing against Kog'Maw, with a 52.8% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a good counter for Kog'Maw.
While Riven does have a higher winrate compared to Kog'Maw, when facing one another, Riven also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Riven into Kog'Mawas her relative depth means that 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 Kog'Maw. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Kog'Maw matchups, Riven is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Riven is a good counter to Kog'Maw. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often gets a similar amount of CS as Kog'Maw. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Riven versus Kog'Maw build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Kog'Maw than with many other typical builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 52.8% when countering Kog'Maw with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Kog'Maw as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Riven vs Kog'Maw counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.8% winrate overall.
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