Riven vs Ziggs
How to Beat Ziggs as Riven
based on 1,585 Riven vs Ziggs matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Ziggs Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Ziggs Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Riven Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Ziggs as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Ziggs
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 Ziggs
Many of Ziggs' abilities have long cooldowns. Try catching him just after he's used his abilities.
Don't step on Ziggs' mines! They'll slow you and make it much easier for him to hit you with his other abiltiies.
Ziggs' ultimate, Mega Inferno Bomb, deals more damage in the center of the explosion.
Riven vs Ziggs Counter Stats
How to Counter Ziggs with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several strategic Riven against Ziggs matchup stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ziggs’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ziggs..
Riven normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Ziggs. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Ziggs
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Riven or Ziggs?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when playing against Ziggs, with a 52.7% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a good counter for Ziggs.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Ziggs, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Riven into Ziggsas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ziggs. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing 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 Ziggs matchups, Riven is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Riven is a good counter to Ziggs. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Riven against Ziggs.
Other Champion Matchups Against Riven
Additional Information for Riven Players
How We Calculated Our Riven vs Ziggs Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Ziggs. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Riven versus Ziggs build include Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Ziggs than with most other typical builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 52.7% when countering Ziggs with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Ziggs as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Riven vs Ziggs clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ziggs as Riven are shown for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.