Taliyah vs Riven Counter Pick

Riven pays no resource cost at all. Her kit runs on cooldowns alone, so Broken Wings, Ki Burst and Valor go into a wave without a mana bar to watch, while Taliyah has one to manage. What flips the mid lane back is range: 525 against 125, with Threaded Volley cast on the move and Worked Ground the only real restriction on repeating it. Over 122 games on patch 16.13.1 Taliyah takes 56.6%, difficulty Easy.

Her difficulty score of 8 sits three points above Taliyah’s 5, and the gap shows in how the melee side tends to lose. Every approach she has is a dash, and Unraveled Earth stuns anything that dashes through it, so leading with Broken Wings into the minefield hands over the exchange; Valor blocks damage rather than crowd control, which does not help. Statistically Riven still owns the body — 630 base health to 550, 2,330 at level 18, 33 armour to 18, 64 attack damage to 58 — and her ultimate extends both weapon range and damage before converting into Wind Slash, so a landed engage ends things quickly. Runic Blade also charges from every ability she casts, converting each one into extra attack damage on the follow-up hit. Weaver’s Wall is the reset when it does. Cooldown windows worth tracking are listed on the Riven champion page.