Veigar vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Veigar
based on 3,580 Veigar vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Veigar vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Veigar vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Veigar
Tips for Playing as Veigar against Riven
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
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.
Veigar vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Veigar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some strategic Veigar against Riven counter statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Veigar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Veigar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Riven..
Veigar usually has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Riven. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Veigar and Riven
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Who is Better, Veigar or Riven?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Veigar usually wins when playing against Riven, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Veigar makes a good counter to Riven.
While Veigar does have a higher win rate than Riven, when facing one another, Veigar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Veigar into Rivenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Veigar has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Veigar vs Riven matchups, Veigar is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Veigar is a decent counter for Riven. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Veigar against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Veigar in order 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 pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Veigar usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Riven. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Veigar versus Riven build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Stormsurge. When Veigar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Riven than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Veigar had an average winrate of 51.5% battling Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Riven as Veigar, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Veigar vs Riven matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.5% win rate overall.
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