Riven vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Riven
based on 853 Riven vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Nidalee
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 Nidalee
Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
Riven vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several vital Riven against Nidalee matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nidalee..
Riven often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Nidalee. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Riven or Nidalee?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when taking on Nidalee, with a 57.1% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a fantastic counter for Nidalee.
While Riven does have a much higher winrate than Nidalee, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Riven into Nidaleeas 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Nidalee matchups, Riven is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Riven is a great counter to Nidalee. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often accumulates much more CS as Nidalee. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Riven versus Nidalee build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Nidalee than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 57.1% battling Nidalee with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Nidalee as Riven, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Riven vs Nidalee matchups, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 57.1% win rate overall.
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