Riven vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Riven
based on 4,951 Riven vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Diana
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 Diana
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
Riven vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some critical Riven vs. Diana matchup stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Diana..
Riven typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Diana. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Diana
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Who is Better, Riven or Diana?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when taking on Diana, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Riven makes an ok counter to Diana.
While Riven does have a higher winrate than Diana, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much 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 Dianaas her relative depth means 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 Diana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Diana matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter for Diana. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Diana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average accumulates more CS as Diana. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Riven versus Diana build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Diana than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 50.5% when playing against Diana with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Diana as Riven, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Riven vs Diana face-offs, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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