Riven vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Riven
based on 1,608 Riven vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Orianna
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 Orianna
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
Riven vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some strategic Riven versus Orianna counter statistics that may help you explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Orianna’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Orianna..
Riven typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives more damage than Orianna. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Orianna
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Who is Better, Riven or Orianna?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when playing against Orianna, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Riven makes an ok counter for Orianna.
While Riven does have a higher winrate compared to Orianna, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Oriannaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Orianna matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Orianna. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Orianna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Orianna. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Riven versus Orianna build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Orianna than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 50.8% when countering Orianna with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Orianna as Riven, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Riven vs Orianna battles, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.8% win rate overall.
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