Riven vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Riven
based on 2,789 Riven vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump
Interrupting the charge up on Absolute Zero will lower the amount of damage your team takes.
Using Summoner Flash is a surefire way to escape Absolute Zero.
Biggest Snowball Ever moves very fast but cannot turn as quickly, so don't try to escape it by running away in a straight line. Instead, make sudden, sharp turns.
Riven vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Riven in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several valuable Riven vs. Nunu & Willump matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the two. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nunu & Willump’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nunu & Willump..
Riven normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Nunu & Willump. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Riven or Nunu & Willump?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when playing against Nunu & Willump, with a 53.4% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a great counter for Nunu & Willump.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Nunu & Willump, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Riven into Nunu & Willumpas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Nunu & Willump 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 team members during team fights.
Riven is a great counter for Nunu & Willump. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often picks up much more CS compared to Nunu & Willump. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Riven versus Nunu & Willump build include Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Nunu & Willump than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 53.4% when countering Nunu & Willump with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Nunu & Willump as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Riven vs Nunu & Willump matchups, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.4% winrate overall.
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