Riven vs Caitlyn
How to Beat Caitlyn as Riven
based on 11,481 Riven vs Caitlyn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Caitlyn Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Caitlyn as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn
Keep behind allied minions if Caitlyn is harassing you with Piltover Peacemaker (it deals less damage with each subsequent target).
You can intercept Ace in the Hole's missile from hitting an ally if you stand in its path.
Riven vs Caitlyn Counter Stats
How to Counter Caitlyn with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several important Riven vs. Caitlyn counter stats that may help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Caitlyn’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Caitlyn..
Riven normally has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Caitlyn. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Caitlyn
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Who is Better, Riven or Caitlyn?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when playing against Caitlyn, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes an ok counter for Caitlyn.
While Riven does have a lower win rate compared to Caitlyn, when facing one another, Riven also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Caitlynas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Caitlyn. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Caitlyn matchups, Caitlyn is the better champ with a similar 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 for Caitlyn. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Riven against Caitlyn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow 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 relative to Caitlyn. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need 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, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Riven versus Caitlyn build consist of Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Caitlyn than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 49.3% when playing against Caitlyn with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Caitlyn as Riven, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Ingenious Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Riven vs Caitlyn battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Caitlyn as Riven are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.