Riven vs Sett
How to Beat Sett as Riven
based on 3,193 Riven vs Sett matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Sett Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Sett Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sett as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Sett
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 Sett Counter Stats
How to Counter Sett with Riven in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several influential Riven vs. Sett matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sett’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Sett..
Riven typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Sett. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Sett
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Who is Better, Riven or Sett?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually loses when facing off against Sett, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a bad counter to Sett.
While Riven does have a lower winrate compared to Sett, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Riven into Settas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sett. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Sett matchups, Sett is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter to Sett. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Riven against Sett.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Sett during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Sett. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Riven versus Sett build include Maw of Malmortius, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Sett than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when playing against Sett with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Sett as Riven, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Riven vs Sett counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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