Riven vs LeBlanc
How to Beat LeBlanc as Riven
based on 1,986 Riven vs LeBlanc matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs LeBlanc Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering LeBlanc as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against LeBlanc
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Advice to Win Against LeBlanc
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
Riven vs LeBlanc Counter Stats
How to Counter LeBlanc with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some influential Riven against LeBlanc counter statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than LeBlanc’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than LeBlanc..
Riven typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to LeBlanc. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Riven or LeBlanc?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when playing against LeBlanc, with a 53.7% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a great counter for LeBlanc.
While Riven does have a higher winrate than LeBlanc, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Riven into LeBlancas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs LeBlanc matchups, Riven is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Riven is a great counter for LeBlanc. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Riven against LeBlanc.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter LeBlanc during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to LeBlanc. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Riven versus LeBlanc build consist of Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing LeBlanc than with many other common builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 53.7% battling LeBlanc with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating LeBlanc as Riven, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Riven vs LeBlanc LoL games, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.7% winrate overall.
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