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.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stats provided here highlight several critical Riven versus Singed counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Singed’s ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Singed. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Riven normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Singed. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Singed, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Riven makes an ok counter to Singed.
While Riven does have a higher winrate than Singed, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Singedas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Singed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Singed matchups, Riven is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Singed. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Singed.
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter Singed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, 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 relative to Singed. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Riven versus Singed build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Singed than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when countering Singed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Singed as Riven, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Riven vs Singed counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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