Riven vs Karma
How to Beat Karma as Riven
based on 3,523 Riven vs Karma matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Karma Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karma as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Karma
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 Karma
Focused Resolve is a strong disengage tool. Create distance to avoid being rooted and seek to engage afterwards.
Karma's Soulflare erupts for bonus damage in the area in which it's placed. React quickly and escape the circle to avoid taking heavy damage.
Karma's passive lowers her Mantra cooldown when she hits enemy champions with abilities and basic attacks. Deny her from getting free hits on you.
Riven vs Karma Counter Stats
How to Counter Karma with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some critical Riven versus Karma counter statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Karma’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Karma. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Riven often has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Karma. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Karma
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Who is Better, Riven or Karma?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when playing against Karma, with a 53.0% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a good counter for Karma.
While Riven does have a higher winrate compared to Karma, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Riven into Karmaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karma. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Karma matchups, Riven is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Riven is an above average counter to Karma. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Riven against Karma.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often gets more CS compared to Karma. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Riven versus Karma build consist of Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs Karma than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 53.0% battling Karma with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Karma as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Riven vs Karma clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.0% winrate overall.
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