Riven vs Morgana
How to Beat Morgana as Riven
based on 5,261 Riven vs Morgana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Morgana Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Morgana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Morgana as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Morgana
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 Morgana
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
Riven vs Morgana Counter Stats
How to Counter Morgana with Riven in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several valuable Riven vs. Morgana counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Morgana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Morgana. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Riven normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Morgana. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Morgana
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Who is Better, Riven or Morgana?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually loses when taking on Morgana, with a 47.6% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a bad counter to Morgana.
While Riven does have a lower winrate compared to Morgana, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Riven into Morganaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Morgana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Morgana matchups, Morgana is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Riven is a bad counter for Morgana. Focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Morgana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Morgana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often picks up much more CS compared to Morgana. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Riven versus Morgana build include Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Morgana than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 47.6% when countering Morgana with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Morgana 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 sets we have analyed for Riven vs Morgana clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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