Taliyah vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Taliyah
based on 1,427 Taliyah vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Riven
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Advice to Win Against Riven
All of Riven's damage is physical, prioritize high Armor if an opposing Riven gets out of control.
Riven has a great deal of mobility but she cannot move very far with any one skill. Rooting or silencing her during her combo will greatly reduce her effectiveness.
Riven excels at dueling multiple melee attackers at once, as she will be on an almost equal footing damage-wise. If pairing up against Riven, don't go in as double melee until she has expended her full combo.
Taliyah vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Taliyah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some strategic Taliyah vs. Riven matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Taliyah normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Riven. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taliyah and Riven
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Riven?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when playing against Riven, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Taliyah makes a poor counter for Riven.
While Taliyah does have a lower winrate compared to Riven, when on opposite teams, Taliyah also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Taliyah into Riven.
Moreover, Taliyah also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. 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 in League of Legends, in Taliyah vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Taliyah is a somewhat poor counter for Riven. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Taliyah against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah in order to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Riven. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Taliyah versus Riven build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Taliyah bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Riven than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average winrate of 48.3% when playing against Riven with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Riven as Taliyah, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Taliyah vs Riven battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
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