Trundle vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Trundle
based on 6,199 Trundle vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Trundle vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Trundle vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Trundle
Tips for Playing as Trundle against Riven
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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.
Trundle vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Trundle in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Trundle versus Riven counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Riven..
Trundle usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Riven. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Trundle and Riven
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Who is Better, Trundle or Riven?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Trundle usually wins when facing off against Riven, with a 52.3% win rate. Thus, Trundle makes a good counter for Riven.
While Trundle does have a higher win rate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Trundle also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Trundle into Riven.
Moreover, Trundle also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Riven matchups, Trundle is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Trundle is a good counter to Riven. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Trundle against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Trundle to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Riven. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Trundle versus Riven build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Titanic Hydra. When Trundle used at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Riven than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Trundle boasted an average winrate of 52.3% battling Riven with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Riven as Trundle, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Trundle vs Riven battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Riven as Trundle are given for every ranked division. To scope the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.