Talk:Riven/@comment-4900160-20131207222615/@comment-4834593-20131207225225

I outlaned her with Aatrox yesterday. Just staying behind, poking with E and healing everything up. I could stay at full health, but she would sometimes get hit by my E, and as Riven has no sustain, at some point I had that much more health I could go in and win a 1v1. While I believe this will always work, I should note that that game was a laggy game, where both me and Riven had to guess where skillshots went.

Basically, you need to make sure she can't kill you (yeah, sure, capt. obvious). I would say that the best two champions for this, are Aatrox (he can sustain any damage Riven deals if he plays it careful and never gets hit by say, more than two Q's or a Q and a W between Riven's cooldowns, while he can farm/harras with E) and Garen (who just says shut up and die to my spin while you can't do anything). Other champions that can outlane a Riven, but require some skill (they are stronger than Riven on equal skill and champion knowledge, but are relatively close) are Renekton, Nasus (basically, if Nasus survives until level 6 without dying to me on Riven, I give up the lane and try to start snowballing by roaming around and getting kills, dragons, towers etc at other places at the map), Irelia, Yorick (I am actually not sure how well he'd do against Riven. You never see him nowadays. I believe he should shut her down if really played well), Darius (if he survives until 6, he might be able to duel her. It's a tricky one though), probably Jarvan.

I do believe, however, that the largest part of countering Riven, is knowing her, and feeling when you can go in. That has helped me more than anything else when playing against her.