Everything for Riven Jungle on patch 16.11, pulled from real Emerald+ ranked games — the build path, rune pages, the counters worth banning, the strongest teammates, and Riven's win conditions.
Riven is an AD bruiser in the jungle, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 50.3% win rate, 0.2% pick rate, 1,893 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Riven spikes hardest in the mid game around the two-to-three-item mark — that is the window to force fights and objectives.
How Riven wins: splitpushing a side lane and forcing the enemy to answer it, and using Riven's mobility to catch isolated targets. The kit grades 8/10 split-push, 8/10 mobility. Riven grades low on disengage (2/10), so don't take fights that turn on those dimensions.
The most-played core build is Axiom Arc, Sundered Sky, Death's Dance, which holds a 48.0% win rate across 75 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.
And on the team side, Riven gains the most from a Ahri (+7.9% pair win rate).
Riven's highest-volume core items and rune page this patch. Select the enemy composition above and the build re-optimizes for that exact matchup.
Who Riven Jungle wants on the team: partners with the biggest positive swing on Riven's win rate this patch.
Riven is also played in these other roles this patch.
Drafting a whole team? The Team Builder coaches all 10 picks at once. Want Riven's current standing? Open the Tier List.