Yone vs Riven Counter Pick

Yone trails in this matchup: a 39.9% win rate over 386 mid-lane games on patch 16.13.1, which the difficulty model rates as Hard. Range is the first thing to grasp, and the margin is slim. Yone attacks from 175 units and Riven from 125, so that 50-unit advantage decides who lands the free poke, until Blade of the Exile gives her bonus attack damage and extra range for its duration and closes the gap.

Riven fights without spending anything. Her abilities need no resource bar, so Broken Wings, Ki Burst and Valor return on cooldown alone, and Runic Blade turns each of those casts into bonus basic-attack damage. Yone runs on Flow instead, and his openers commit him: Mortal Steel only dashes once two stacks of Gathering Storm are up, and Soul Unbound leaves his body behind for the trip back. Ki Burst exploits exactly that habit, since a stun that connects while his spirit is away settles the exchange before the Spirit Cleave shield can matter.

Both champions deal physical damage, so armor is the right defense for either, although the magic damage on every second Yone attack from Way of the Hunter means a pure armor stack leaves him slightly underprotected. Base armor is the same at 33; at level 18, Yone reaches 111.2 armor and 2,405 health, compared with 2,330 for Riven. Both carry a difficulty rating of 8, so execution rather than stats moves this number.