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Riven Jungle Wild Rift Guide
Riven jungle counters include Vi and Rammus. See the best build, runes, matchups, and game plan for Wild Rift Patch 7.3.
How to play
- Use attacks between spells as you clear Each ability strengthens a basic attack through your passive. Use those attacks between casts to clear camps faster.
- Gank with enough movement left to chase Save your 2nd ability to stun the enemy and the third cast of your 1st ability to knock them up, instead of using every dash just to reach them.
- Enter teamfights after enemies commit Approach a damage dealer from the side after enemies commit. Activate your ultimate before fighting, then cast it again when they are low to finish them with its slash.
Strengths
- Explosive gank threat once her clear is done: her stun, dashes, and burst lock a laner down before they can react.
- Fast, manaless clear with a shield lets her contest scuttle, invade, and keep tempo without stopping for resources.
- Dominant early skirmisher who wins most jungle duels inside her window and dives the backline cleanly in fights.
Weaknesses
- Falls off the longer the game runs, since farm junglers outscale her once her early lead stops growing.
- The shield is her only defense, so burst or sustained damage that outpaces it leaves her with nothing.
- High execution: a dodged stun or a fumbled combo turns a winning skirmish into a fight she can lose.
Build Snapshot
Rune Setup
Summoner Spells
Riven Jungle Counters
Who counters Riven Jungle in Wild Rift (WR)? These champions beat Riven in the jungle matchup, with how each one wins. Learn to play around them or ban them in ranked.
- Vi: Vi punishes the exact window you live in: her charged knockup catches you mid-dash and her lock-on ultimate pulls you out of any escape you planned, so your mobility and shield mean little.
- Rammus: Every dash and auto in your combo feeds Defensive Ball Curl (2nd) straight back into your own health bar, and his taunt burns your shield while you stand there hitting armor you cannot cut through.
Champions Riven Is Strong Against
Riven's best matchups in Wild Rift. Riven holds an edge against these picks in the jungle role, so look to press the advantage and contest objectives.
- Master Yi: Master Yi's first clear and pre-item dueling give Riven room to invade, but Alpha Strike (1st) can dodge a telegraphed Broken Wings (1st) hit and Meditate (2nd) can blunt her burst. Hold Ki Burst (2nd) for the spot where Alpha Strike (1st) ends, interrupt Meditate (2nd), and convert the early camp lead before Highlander (Ult) removes the kiting window.
- Viego: Viego needs a drawn-out duel to heal through and reset off, but your combo bursts him inside one shield window and your dashes dodge his spear, so the fight never lasts long enough.
- Talon: Valor (3rd) absorbs Talon's Rake (2nd) and Noxian Diplomacy (1st) opener, while Broken Wings (1st) can follow his short combat movement after the first burst is spent. Do not chase Assassin's Path (3rd) across multiple walls; interrupt the initial commit with Ki Burst (2nd), then extend the duel while his Rake (2nd) and Shadow Assault (Ult) are unavailable.
Early Game
Use Broken Wings (1st) between attacks to clear, and use Valor's (3rd) shield; not Ki Burst (2nd); to absorb camp damage. Only the third Broken Wings (1st) cast can cross terrain, so plan wall movement around that cast instead of assuming every Q (1st) dash will pass through. Keep Ki Burst (2nd) ready to stun the laner when the gank begins. Contest Scuttle when your nearby lanes can move and Riven reaches the river with enough health and cooldowns to duel. Winning the crab gives vision and can open a gank on the adjacent lane. Invade a slow-starting jungler only after tracking their route and preserving a dash for the exit; mobility does not protect Riven from a collapse by both enemy lanes.
Mid Game
Riven should convert her strongest skirmishing window before enemy frontlines and carries finish scaling. Collapse on river and take dragon or Herald while few junglers want to fight you, contesting properly when your team is ahead. In an even game take Herald, since a tower converts your tempo immediately and soul asks you to still be relevant much later, which Riven is not. Between objectives, counter-jungle hard when you know where the enemy is, timing your invade around their clear so you catch them low or absent. Every gank that lands should turn into an objective, or you are spending your best minutes on nothing. A Riven who farms passively through her power spike throws away the only window she gets.
Late Game
Late game you are no longer the strongest jungler on the map, so stop playing like you are. Group with your team, look for picks before the big objectives, and use your dashes to flank rather than facecheck. Baron and Elder fights are where you earn your keep: dive the enemy carry the moment the fight commits, kill them, and trust your team to clean up the rest. You no longer win the open duels you used to own, so skip those fights, and respect that anti-shield tools or heavy burst on the enemy team cut deep into your survivability. Your job is to close the game off your early lead, and if it runs long, fight only where your team can follow.
Teamfights
You are a diver, not a frontline. Wait for the fight to start or for the enemy to spend their first round of crowd control, then leap in with E (3rd), land the stun, and put the full combo on their carry. Your knockup interrupts channels and key abilities, so time it to cancel an enemy ultimate or a fleeing dash instead of spending it on the tank. Keep moving with your Q (1st) dashes once you are in, because a Riven who stands still dies before the kill lands. If you cannot get in from the front, take the flank, since a stun onto the backline from the side ends fights faster. Save E (3rd) for the way out, not just the way in, once your target drops.