Warwick vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Warwick
based on 4,482 Warwick vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Warwick vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Riven
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Warwick in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Warwick against Riven counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between the two. For instance, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Riven..
Warwick typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Riven. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Warwick and Riven
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Who is Better, Warwick or Riven?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Warwick usually fairs equally well when playing against Riven, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Warwick makes an ok counter for Riven.
While Warwick does have a lower win rate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Warwick also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Warwick into Riven.
Furthermore, Warwick also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Warwick is a somewhat poor counter to Riven. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Warwick against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Warwick to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Riven. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Warwick versus Riven build consist of Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Warwick had an average winrate of 49.7% battling Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Riven as Warwick, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Warwick vs Riven counters, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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