Riven vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Riven
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Riven vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Samira
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.
Riven vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some significant Riven versus Samira counter stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Samira’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Samira..
Riven typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Samira. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Samira
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Who is Better, Riven or Samira?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when trying to fight Samira, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a good counter to Samira.
While Riven does have a higher winrate compared to Samira, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Samiraas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Samira. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Samira matchups, Riven is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter for Samira. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Samira. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Riven versus Samira build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Samira than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Samira with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Samira as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Riven vs Samira matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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