Morgana vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Morgana
based on 5,261 Morgana vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Morgana vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Morgana vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Morgana
Tips for Playing as Morgana against Riven
Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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.
Morgana vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Morgana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some valuable Morgana vs. Riven counter statistics that can help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Riven. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Morgana normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Riven. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Morgana and Riven
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Who is Better, Morgana or Riven?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Morgana usually wins when taking on Riven, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Morgana makes a good counter to Riven.
While Morgana does have a higher winrate compared to Riven, when on opposite teams, Morgana also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Morgana into Riven.
Furthermore, Morgana has a great amount of utility and CC, 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 a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Riven matchups, Morgana is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Morgana is an above average counter to Riven. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Morgana against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Morgana to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana usually racks up a lot less CS as Riven. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Morgana versus Riven build consist of Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Riven than with many other typical builds. In fact, Morgana had an average winrate of 52.4% when countering Riven with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Riven as Morgana, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Triple Tonic, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Morgana vs Riven clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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