Honestly riven is just the worst to lane against

BurningDolphins ··4 votes·734 views

From the very start of the game she zones you off your cs with her Qs. And unless you counter her with "gnar" people have said- it's just gonna be a shitty lane. They picked riven first and I picked maokai. People might just say "well duh riven wins that matchup easily he's supposed to lose that". I just don't really care if that is the case. Even if she does counter mao or something, nobody should have that much power in lane just because her kit. The AoE knock up and stun just seems ridiculous. Sion has to lay his area out in front of you and charge up for like 3 seconds before a knock up. She just runs at you at lvl 3 as if she's 10 kills deep and knock up stuns you for an early kill. I get it's "easy not to feed in lane" and I agree with that. But there seems to be 0 counter play to riven. Maybe somebody has a secret trick I don't know of , but riven seems a tad too strong. Or her kit is just naturally toxic

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Mimy1 votes

I rolled a riven face as varus..

Espicially early... then you get free farm period.. she comes back mid game so you need to be careful but after most items are bought you can curb stomp her again.

Weathered1 votes

Jayce

The Poetic Zed1 votes

Garen Pantheon

Apocalypsic1 votes

You just need to understand how Riven works.

As a Riven main, a well played mao does give me nightmares.

BurningDolphins 1 votes

So it's a decent matchup for mao?

Apocalypsic1 votes

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So it's a decent matchup for mao?

Mhm. Root or knock her up during her third q and you really disrupt her combo.

Bhagswag1 votes

I've had some success with Shen. Then again, I play Shen top vs everything lol.

Spoofghoul1 votes

i have 0 issues with early riven

later though that 1 manwife stunlock is super obnoxious and then when you do get an opening, but only if u got tenacity, 329874012340897 TRILLION FUCKING SHIELD DERP DERP DERP

Super gay is all

Oh did i forget to mention she can now get to lane faster then you with teleport because mobility

herp dash derp dash herp dash derp dash

fucking obnoxious really can't run can't catch is always first everywhere

her kit is kind of bullshit yes i fully agree there the arpen build isn't helping either unless you are playing that manwife champ

anyway i just pick graves into IT! yea it's an it at best, definitely not a woman. fight cancer with cancer i'd say

MunchCrunchLunch1 votes

the problem is that its very hard to kill her because she just fucking dashes away 4 times if things aren't going her way. i dont care about anything. but her damn escapability.

Woodakoodashooda1 votes

Riven players are often terrible at Riven. They think they got no mana so they can just spam their abilities during laning even if it doesn't touch their opponent. But even at 40% CDR, they still have cooldowns and this fact is something most Riven players don't take into consideration. They become overconfident that just because I'm not engaging them means that I am allowing them to bully me. When, in reality, I am simply waiting for an opening in which I can tear them apart!

You see. The thing is. They will use an ability essential to their combo at some point while farming and that's when you go in on them with all your abilities off CD.

BurningDolphins 1 votes

Thanks that is an actual good tip haha

RexSaur1 votes

Meanwhile Jayce exists.

BurningDolphins 1 votes

I really dislike jayce as well lol

VivaLaKitten1 votes

Illaoi Darius Teemo Yasuo Zed Annie Riven is the worst?

Kokiri Star1 votes

poppy versus her is nice, just make sure you save that w zone for her last q, or an escape e XD

Meep Man1 votes

Maokai should actually win that match up, very consistently. His Q interrupts Riven's nonsense pretty easily, his W prevents her from casting her Q and E for the duration, and his R is just big screw you for trying to kill him. His Passive also gets 3 charges from Riven's Q and 2 from her R.

Astôlfo1 votes

I don't see how a free win in most cases is the worst thing, considering most players are garbage on Riven, and quite a lot have a bad personality. Kicking their ass shouldn't be too hard, and once you do, they'll probably rage/AFK/int feed.

Arcus Diabolus1 votes

As a Riven main, might I suggest trying Kennen against her? I have no idea what to do against him, so I ban him just to avoid the counter pick.

Maybe I'm just a scrublord, but its just plain rough.

PermabannedGaren1 votes

How the fuck do you feed Riven as Maokai? Even if she has an advantage in lane you can just CS and build full tank to scale.

You rush a Sunfire against her right?

BurningDolphins 1 votes

I didn't "fuckin" feed her. She killed me once in lane. She got fed on all my team. And forced me off cs for most of Lansing phase. I didn't say I fed her

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