Teemo vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Teemo
based on 8,566 Teemo vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Teemo vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Teemo vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Teemo
Tips for Playing as Teemo against Riven
Teemo's mushrooms can be used to farm creep waves very effectively.
Place your mushrooms at key locations on the map, such as by the Dragon or Baron Nashor, to reveal when your enemies might be attempting to kill them.
Advice to Win Against Riven
All of Riven's damage is physical, prioritize high Armor if an opposing Riven gets out of control.
Riven has a great deal of mobility but she cannot move very far with any one skill. Rooting or silencing her during her combo will greatly reduce her effectiveness.
Riven excels at dueling multiple melee attackers at once, as she will be on an almost equal footing damage-wise. If pairing up against Riven, don't go in as double melee until she has expended her full combo.
Teemo vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Teemo in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some critical Teemo against Riven counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Teemo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Teemo may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Riven..
Teemo typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Riven. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Teemo and Riven
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Who is Better, Teemo or Riven?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Teemo usually wins when playing against Riven, with a 52.3% win rate. Thus, Teemo makes a good counter to Riven.
While Teemo does have a higher winrate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Teemo also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Teemo into Riven.
Moreover, Teemo has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Teemo vs Riven matchups, Teemo is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Teemo is an above average counter for Riven. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Teemo against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Teemo to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Teemo on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Riven. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Teemo versus Riven build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Teemo incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Riven than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Teemo had an average win rate of 52.3% when playing against Riven with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Riven as Teemo, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Teemo vs Riven face-offs, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.3% winrate overall.
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