Riven vs Braum
How to Beat Braum as Riven
based on 1,499 Riven vs Braum matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Braum Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Braum as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Braum
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 Braum
Unbreakable gives Braum extremely strong directional defense, either wait until it is down or outposition the ability.
Braum must land Winter's Bite or a basic attack to start Concussive Blows. If you get marked, exit combat range before getting hit 3 more times to avoid the stun.
Braum's ultimate has a long cast time, use that extra time to dodge. Walking over the frozen ground left behind will slow you, position so that you don't need to cross it.
Riven vs Braum Counter Stats
How to Counter Braum with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some influential Riven vs. Braum counter statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Braum’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Braum. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Riven normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Braum. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Braum
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Who is Better, Riven or Braum?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually loses when facing off against Braum, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a bad counter to Braum.
While Riven does have a lower winrate compared to Braum, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Riven into Braumas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Braum. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Braum matchups, Braum is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Riven is a trash counter for Braum. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Riven against Braum.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter Braum during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average picks up much more CS as Braum. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Riven versus Braum build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Braum than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when countering Braum with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Braum as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Riven vs Braum counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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