Riven vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Riven
based on 1,677 Riven vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Anivia
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Advice to Win Against Anivia
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
Riven vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several valuable Riven versus Anivia matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Anivia’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Anivia..
Riven typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Anivia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Anivia
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Who is Better, Riven or Anivia?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually loses when trying to fight Anivia, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a poor counter to Anivia.
While Riven does have a lower win rate compared to Anivia, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Aniviaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter to Anivia. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Anivia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Anivia. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Riven versus Anivia build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Anivia than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when countering Anivia with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Anivia as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Riven vs Anivia battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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