Riven vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Riven
based on 5,194 Riven vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Maokai
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 Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Riven vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some valuable Riven against Maokai counter stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Maokai. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Riven normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Maokai. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Maokai
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Who is Better, Riven or Maokai?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually loses when taking on Maokai, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a poor counter for Maokai.
While Riven does have a lower winrate compared to Maokai, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Riven into Maokaias 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 CC and other utility, a similar amount to Maokai. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Maokai matchups, Maokai is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Riven is a garbage counter to Maokai. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Riven against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Maokai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often accumulates much more CS compared to Maokai. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Riven versus Maokai build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Maokai than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 47.3% when playing against Maokai with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Maokai as Riven, you 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 picked for Riven vs Maokai clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.3% win rate overall.
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