Riven vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Riven
based on 5,028 Riven vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Riven vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some critical Riven against Varus matchup stats that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Varus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Varus..
Riven often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Varus. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Varus
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Who is Better, Riven or Varus?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when facing off against Varus, with a 52.8% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a good counter for Varus.
While Riven does have a higher winrate than Varus, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Riven into Varusas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Varus matchups, Riven is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Riven is a good counter to Varus. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Varus. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Riven versus Varus build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Varus than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 52.8% when countering Varus with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Varus as Riven, you 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 runes players picked for Riven vs Varus LoL games, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.8% win rate overall.
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