Aphelios vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Aphelios
based on 2,765 Aphelios vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Riven
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Aphelios in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Aphelios vs. Riven counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven..
Aphelios usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Riven. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Riven
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Riven?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when playing against Riven, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Aphelios makes a poor counter for Riven.
While Aphelios does have a lower winrate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Aphelios also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Aphelios into Rivenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Aphelios also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Aphelios is a trash counter for Riven. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up 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 that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Riven. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Aphelios versus Riven build consist of Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 48.0% when countering Riven with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Riven as Aphelios, Aphelios players should take the Press the Attack, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Aphelios vs Riven counters, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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