Mordekaiser vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Mordekaiser
based on 7,486 Mordekaiser vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Mordekaiser vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Mordekaiser vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Mordekaiser
Tips for Playing as Mordekaiser against Riven
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
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.
Mordekaiser vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Mordekaiser in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several critical Mordekaiser against Riven counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Mordekaiser may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven..
Mordekaiser often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Riven. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Mordekaiser and Riven
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Who is Better, Mordekaiser or Riven?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Mordekaiser usually fairs equally well when facing off against Riven, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Mordekaiser makes an ok counter to Riven.
While Mordekaiser does have a higher winrate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Mordekaiser also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Mordekaiser into Riven.
Furthermore, Mordekaiser has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Mordekaiser vs Riven matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Mordekaiser is a decent counter for Riven. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Mordekaiser against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Mordekaiser in order to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Mordekaiser most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Riven. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Mordekaiser versus Riven build include Nashor's Tooth, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Mordekaiser combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Mordekaiser had an average win rate of 50.3% battling Riven with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Riven as Mordekaiser, Mordekaiser players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Mordekaiser vs Riven clashes, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% win rate overall.
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