Riven vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Riven
based on 4,106 Riven vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Shaco
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 Shaco
If Shaco is doing well early-game, it is worth the investment to place Stealth Wards near his Jungle camps.
If Shaco uses Deceive to enter a fight he won't be able to quickly use it again to get away. Work with your team to quickly focus him down.
Riven vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some critical Riven versus Shaco counter statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shaco’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shaco..
Riven typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Shaco. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Shaco
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Who is Better, Riven or Shaco?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when taking on Shaco, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes an ok counter for Shaco.
While Riven does have a higher winrate compared to Shaco, when facing one another, Riven also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Shacoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shaco. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Shaco matchups, Riven is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Riven is a decent counter to Shaco. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually racks up much more CS relative to Shaco. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Riven versus Shaco build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Shaco than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 50.8% battling Shaco with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Shaco 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 builds we have analyed for Riven vs Shaco counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.8% win rate overall.
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