Riven vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Riven
based on 5,884 Riven vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Malphite Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Riven Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Malphite as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Riven vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several significant Riven vs. Malphite counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Malphite..
Riven often has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Malphite. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Malphite
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Riven or Malphite?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually loses when playing against Malphite, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a poor counter to Malphite.
While Riven does have a lower win rate than Malphite, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Riven into Malphiteas her relative depth means 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 Malphite. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Malphite matchups, Malphite is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Riven is a garbage counter for Malphite. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Malphite.
Other Champion Matchups Against Riven
Additional Information for Riven Players
How We Calculated Our Riven vs Malphite Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Malphite 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 mind the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Malphite. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have 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, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Riven versus Malphite build include Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Malphite than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing against Malphite with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Malphite as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Riven vs Malphite battles, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
If you need to get Riven vs Malphite tips and builds for a a specific player tier, feel free to choose one from the selection menu provided above. By default, the stats and strategies shown are computed using every round run with both champs.