Gnar vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Gnar
based on 1,132 Gnar vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Riven
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some important Gnar versus Riven matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Riven..
Gnar usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Riven. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Riven
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Who is Better, Gnar or Riven?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Riven, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a bad counter to Riven.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate compared to Riven, when facing one another, Gnar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gnar into Rivenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a terribly counter for Riven. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar usually gets a similar amount of CS as Riven. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Gnar versus Riven build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Riven than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 47.1% when countering Riven with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Riven as Gnar, Gnar players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Gnar vs Riven clashes, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.1% winrate overall.
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