Riven vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Riven
based on 5,616 Riven vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Master Yi
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 Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Riven vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some significant Riven vs. Master Yi matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Master Yi’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Master Yi..
Riven often has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Master Yi. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Riven or Master Yi?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when facing off against Master Yi, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Riven makes an ok counter for Master Yi.
While Riven does have a higher winrate than Master Yi, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Master Yias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Master Yi matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar 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 decent counter to Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often accumulates much more CS compared to Master Yi. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Riven versus Master Yi build include Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Master Yi than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 50.7% when playing against Master Yi with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Master Yi as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Riven vs Master Yi fights, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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