Riven vs Yorick
How to Beat Yorick as Riven
based on 2,354 Riven vs Yorick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Yorick Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yorick as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Yorick
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 Yorick
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
You can attack Dark Procession to break the wall down.
Try to thin out Yorick's minions before you engage him, Mist Walkers will die from a basic attack or a single target spell.
Riven vs Yorick Counter Stats
How to Counter Yorick with Riven in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some strategic Riven against Yorick matchup stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Yorick..
Riven usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Yorick
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Who is Better, Riven or Yorick?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when playing against Yorick, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a good counter for Yorick.
While Riven does have a higher win rate compared to Yorick, when facing one another, Riven also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Yorickas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yorick. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Yorick matchups, Riven is the better champ with a 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 decent counter to Yorick. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Riven against Yorick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven to counter Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Yorick. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Riven versus Yorick build consist of Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Yorick than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Yorick with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Yorick as Riven, Riven players 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 sets players picked for Riven vs Yorick counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.5% win rate overall.
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