How do you beat Riven?

Armagus·8/5/2015, 9:58:05 PM·1 votes·949 views

We've all met her top at some point and although we tried out best, we fell short.

Riven is absolutely dominate in the silver and bronze range, easily wrecking top lane and carrying her team to victory. At higher levels though, you hardly see any Riven play and I don't think I've ever seen her in an LCS split. Which makes me think that Riven actually isn't as good as us lower level players think she is. So, from anyone with experience, how do you handle Riven in lane? Who do you play, what masteries do you use and how do you like to build?

I know she's not invincible, but a knock up and stun later, she certainly feels like it.

8 Comments

GummyBearWookiee8/5/2015, 10:02:57 PM2 votes

Riven crumbles under hard CC that keeps her combos from working. So you can counter her with a hard CC champ with various stuns or knockups...I imagine Cho would be decent with his knockup and silence...Kennen for instance....or go with a more common counter to her like Jax that she can't win a trade against because of his stun, counters/dodges.

Ericwho8/5/2015, 10:04:14 PM2 votes

Actually riven was used early on during season 2 if i remember correctly and she dominated mid lane and is still sometimes used in Korea so she is as good as you think and a good counter to riven is Quinn Jayce and Mord.

ThunderxLord8/5/2015, 10:05:09 PM2 votes

early her cooldowns are high 13 on Q 10 on W and 10 on E if you see her use it on minons go in careful when she has CDR tho and never try fighting her when she has abilities and Ult up her mid and late game if she is not snowballing not that strong if you dont die early all toplaners out scale her and her base dmg is bad so if she is be hide she is useless EDIT: its pretty hard to do but you can shut her down really bad if you know what your doing and Darius Renk and ranged champ can beat her easy if they try there best to not get hit by her stun and 3rd Q