Varus vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Varus
based on 5,028 Varus vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Varus vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Varus vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Varus
Tips for Playing as Varus against Riven
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Varus in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Varus versus Riven matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences between these two champions. As an example, Varus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Varus may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Riven..
Varus often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Riven. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Varus and Riven
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Who is Better, Varus or Riven?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Varus usually loses when facing off against Riven, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Varus makes a bad counter to Riven.
While Varus does have a lower winrate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Varus also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Varus into Riven.
Additionally, Varus also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Varus vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Varus is a garbage counter to Riven. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Varus against Riven.
Other Champion Matchups Against Varus
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Varus to counter Riven during both the lane 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 tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Varus typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Riven. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Varus versus Riven build include Guardian Angel, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Varus bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Riven than with most other common builds. In fact, Varus had an average winrate of 47.2% battling Riven with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Riven as Varus, Varus players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Varus vs Riven LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
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