Riven vs Jarvan IV
How to Beat Jarvan IV as Riven
based on 1,833 Riven vs Jarvan IV matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Jarvan IV Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jarvan IV as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV
Cataclysm's terrain is a frightening force to fight against, but movement abilities can go through it.
Keep out of the path between Jarvan IV and his Demacian Standard to avoid being knocked up in the air.
Riven vs Jarvan IV Counter Stats
How to Counter Jarvan IV with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several critical Riven versus Jarvan IV matchup stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jarvan IV’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Jarvan IV..
Riven often has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Jarvan IV. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Riven or Jarvan IV?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Jarvan IV, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes an ok counter to Jarvan IV.
While Riven does have a higher win rate compared to Jarvan IV, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Riven into Jarvan IVas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jarvan IV. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Jarvan IV matchups, Jarvan IV is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Riven is a decent counter to Jarvan IV. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Riven against Jarvan IV.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Jarvan IV during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average gets much more CS compared to Jarvan IV. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Riven versus Jarvan IV build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Jarvan IV than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 50.0% battling Jarvan IV with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Jarvan IV as Riven, you should take 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 Jarvan IV counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
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