Riven vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Riven
based on 7,064 Riven vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Riven vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several influential Riven against Brand matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Brand’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Brand..
Riven often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Brand. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Brand
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Who is Better, Riven or Brand?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually loses when trying to fight Brand, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a bad counter for Brand.
While Riven does have a lower win rate compared to Brand, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Brandas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter to Brand. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often gets more CS as Brand. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require 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, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Riven versus Brand build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Brand than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 48.2% when countering Brand with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Brand as Riven, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Riven vs Brand counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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