Lee Sin vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Lee Sin
based on 3,920 Lee Sin vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Riven
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Advice to Win Against Riven
All of Riven's damage is physical, prioritize high Armor if an opposing Riven gets out of control.
Riven has a great deal of mobility but she cannot move very far with any one skill. Rooting or silencing her during her combo will greatly reduce her effectiveness.
Riven excels at dueling multiple melee attackers at once, as she will be on an almost equal footing damage-wise. If pairing up against Riven, don't go in as double melee until she has expended her full combo.
Lee Sin vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Lee Sin in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several influential Lee Sin vs. Riven matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Riven..
Lee Sin often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Riven. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lee Sin and Riven
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Riven?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when taking on Riven, with a 47.0% win rate. Therefore, Lee Sin makes a bad counter for Riven.
While Lee Sin does have a lower winrate compared to Riven, when facing one another, Lee Sin also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Lee Sin into Riven.
Moreover, Lee Sin has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Lee Sin is a trash counter for Riven. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lee Sin against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin in order to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin often racks up a lot less CS as Riven. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Lee Sin versus Riven build consist of Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average win rate of 47.0% when countering Riven with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Riven as Lee Sin, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Lee Sin vs Riven battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
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