Mid · 203 games

Riven

Strongest when games end at 30–35 minutes (57%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+117 gold).

Win rate: 53.7%; ±6.9 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: A; #16 of 81
Pick rate: 1.1%; ban 5.3%
Games: 203; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Riven mid wins 53.7% of 203 ranked games, rank 16 of 81 mid champions (tier A). Most players finish Axiom Arc first, at about 10:12.

The build at a glance

What most Riven players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Axiom Arc 10:21 · 36% · 71 games

Boots

Gluttonous Greaves 11:00 · 67% of games

Item 2

Endless Hunger 17:28 · 66% · 42 games

Item 3

Death's Dance 23:16 · 100% · 27 games

Item 4 · late game

Lord Dominik's Regards 27:36 · 16 of 55 games

Item 5 · late game

Guardian Angel 27:48 · 5 of 16 games

Runes

Conqueror · Precision + Inspiration 51% of games · 54% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Blade + Health Potion 78% of games · 54% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 84% of games · 54% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Broken Wings first 98% of games · 54% wins Skill orders →

When Riven wins

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′48% wins40% of games · 82

Lasts 25′ or more58% wins58% of games · 117

Lanes

Good into Akali, Locke

Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Riven games

First Baron: 89% against 31%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 31% 89% +57

First tower 32% 77% +45

Rift Herald 38% 75% +37

First dragon 45% 62% +17

First Voidgrubs 49% 58% +9

First blood 50% 58% +9

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Riven plays

Fewer control wards, more damage to towers

What stands out (10% or more) against the average mid laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Fewer control wards a game0.20 against 1.01 · −80%

More damage to towers9521 against 6819 · +40%

Fewer assists a game4.8 against 6.2 · −22%

More solo kills a game2.1 against 1.8 · +20%

Less damage a minute689 against 839 · −18%

About average: minions, deaths, time spent dead.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~10:54

Item 2done ~18:36

Item 3done ~23:30

Item 4done ~26:48

Item 5done ~28:54

Most common full builds

Axiom Arc › Gluttonous Greaves › Endless Hunger › Death's Dance 57.1%21 games

Gluttonous Greaves › Axiom Arc › Death's Dance › Endless Hunger 90.0%10 games

Umbral Glaive › Gluttonous Greaves › Endless Hunger › Death's Dance 80.0%10 games

Gluttonous Greaves › Umbral Glaive › Endless Hunger › Death's Dance › Maw of Malmortius 62.5%8 games

Bastionbreaker › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Voltaic Cyclosword › Death's Dance 100.0%6 games

Bastionbreaker › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Voltaic Cyclosword › Lord Dominik's Regards 66.7%6 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Maw of Malmortius 80%10

Lord Dominik's Regards 63%8

Death's Dance 62%34

Endless Hunger 62%39

Voltaic Cyclosword 33%6

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Blade + Health Potion54.1%159

Doran's Helm + Health Potion59.1%22

Long Sword + Refillable Potion60.0%15

Boots

Gluttonous Greaves ~11:0055.9%136

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~10:5454.8%42

Mercury's Treads ~12:3050.0%12

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite53.8%171

Flash + Teleport59.3%27

Exhaust + Flash33.3%3

Skills

Max

W54.3%199

Max

E25.0%4

Start

W53.7%136

Start

E55.2%58

Hard lanes

No clearly hard lane yet

Easy lanes

Good into Akali, Locke

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Behind at 15 against 1 of 2, still wins 1 of them

Expected: what Riven's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (28)

Ekko 33% · 9

Syndra 22% · 9

Yone 44% · 9

Katarina 56% · 9

Yasuo 63% · 8

Ahri 43% · 7

Sylas 57% · 7

LeBlanc 33% · 6

Galio 67% · 6

Zed 50% · 6

Viktor 80% · 5

Orianna 40% · 5

Vex 60% · 5

Diana 20% · 5

Twisted Fate 40% · 5

Anivia 100% · 5

Taliyah 60% · 5

Tristana 25% · 4

Vladimir 50% · 4

Qiyana 50% · 4

Ryze 100% · 4

Akshan 75% · 4

Kassadin 33% · 3

Jayce 100% · 3

Lissandra 0% · 3

Kled 33% · 3

Aurora 100% · 3

Hwei 33% · 3

Riven vs Locke · 11 games · Early read

Riven does better than expected here

64%winsexpected 54%

−430gold at 15′average +117

−4.7minions at 10′ahead or behind

0%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.82 a game

Gold lead against Locke Riven's average lead

Against Locke, Riven is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 64% of games, and still wins 43% of those. When ahead, Riven wins 100%.

Ahead at 15′100% wins4 games

Behind at 15′43% wins7 games

Full Riven vs Locke page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Riven games: Jhin

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble

Jhin43% · exp. 56% −1321 games

Easier

Yunara60% · exp. 54% +620 games

Enemy support Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Rell75% · exp. 51% +2416 games

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies about as often as most mid laners

Before 14 minutes Riven dies 2.2 times a game (average 2.2). 49% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 50% for the average mid laner. 35% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.2deaths per game before 14′about average (2.2)

49%involve the enemy junglerabout average (50%)

65%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (67%)

64%with no teammate nearmore than average (61%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Riven dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

Ganks: 25% in your half of mid. Collapses: 37% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 53% in your half of mid.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average mid laner

What kills Riven

Kind of death

Riven Average

Gank 49% (avg 50%)Collapse 17% (avg 17%)1-v-1 35% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Riven Average

Bot laner 7% (avg 7%)Jungler 27% (avg 28%)Support 4% (avg 7%)Mid laner 56% (avg 54%)Top laner 5% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00–8:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Riven Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 6:00 and 9:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Riven; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Riven wins fights

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 2.2 kills per death in their jungle against 0.4 in your half of mid. Overall 1.2 kills per death.

Their half of mid 1.8 K/D 201 / 110

Your half of mid 0.4 K/D 60 / 163

The bot-side river 0.9 K/D 43 / 47

Their jungle 2.2 K/D 56 / 26

The top-side river 1.2 K/D 35 / 29

Your jungle 1.3 K/D 35 / 27

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Riven wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsWorth knowingNear 28% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 70% when Riven is there and 75% when not.

Riven

What most Riven players run

Loses short games, wins from 25 minutes

Good into Akali, Locke

First Baron: 89% against 31%

Fewer control wards, more damage to towers

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

Good into Akali, Locke

Behind at 15 against 1 of 2, still wins 1 of them

Riven does better than expected here

Riven does better than expected here

Enemies that cost Riven games: Jhin

Teammates that change Riven's games

Dies about as often as most mid laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Riven

Ganks come at 3:00, 6:00–8:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of bot lane

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in their half of top lane