Riven vs Rengar
How to Beat Rengar as Riven
based on 4,532 Riven vs Rengar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Rengar Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Rengar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rengar as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Rengar
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 Rengar
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
Riven vs Rengar Counter Stats
How to Counter Rengar with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some critical Riven versus Rengar matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rengar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Rengar..
Riven usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Rengar. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Rengar
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Who is Better, Riven or Rengar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when taking on Rengar, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a good counter for Rengar.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Rengar, when facing one another, Riven also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Rengaras her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rengar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Rengar matchups, Riven is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Rengar. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Rengar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Rengar during both the laning 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 tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually racks up much more CS compared to Rengar. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Riven versus Rengar build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Rengar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 51.7% when countering Rengar with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Rengar as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Riven vs Rengar LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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