Riven vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Riven
based on 3,365 Riven vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Janna
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 Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Riven vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several strategic Riven against Janna counter statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Janna. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Riven typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Janna. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Janna
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Who is Better, Riven or Janna?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when taking on Janna, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a good counter to Janna.
While Riven does have a higher winrate than Janna, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Jannaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Janna matchups, Riven is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter for Janna. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Riven against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Janna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually gets much more CS compared to Janna. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Riven versus Janna build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Janna than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 51.3% when playing against Janna with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Janna as Riven, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Riven vs Janna battles, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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