Riven vs Lulu
How to Beat Lulu as Riven
based on 1,857 Riven vs Lulu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Lulu Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Lulu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lulu as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Lulu
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 Lulu
Lulu excels when opponents heavily commit. Don't give her this chance! Use heavy harass tactics instead to force Lulu and her partner out of lane.
The shots from Lulu's faerie can be intercepted - hide behind your minions to avoid the additional Faerie attacks.
Riven vs Lulu Counter Stats
How to Counter Lulu with Riven in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some influential Riven versus Lulu counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between these two champs. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lulu’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Lulu. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Riven normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Lulu. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Lulu
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Who is Better, Riven or Lulu?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when facing off against Lulu, with a 54.1% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a great counter to Lulu.
While Riven does have a much higher win rate compared to Lulu, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Riven into Luluas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lulu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Lulu matchups, Riven is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Riven is a great counter to Lulu. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Riven against Lulu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Lulu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often picks up much more CS relative to Lulu. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Riven versus Lulu build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Lulu than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 54.1% battling Lulu with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Lulu as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Riven vs Lulu matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.1% winrate overall.
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