Riven vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Riven
based on 1,427 Riven vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Riven vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Riven in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some influential Riven against Taliyah matchup stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Taliyah..
Riven typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Taliyah. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Riven or Taliyah?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when taking on Taliyah, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a good counter to Taliyah.
While Riven does have a higher winrate than Taliyah, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Riven into Taliyahas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Taliyah matchups, Riven is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter for Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Taliyah.
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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 Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually gets a similar amount of CS as Taliyah. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Riven versus Taliyah build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Taliyah than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 51.7% when countering Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Taliyah 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. Of all the rune builds players chose for Riven vs Taliyah counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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