Seraphine vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Seraphine
based on 5,560 Seraphine vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Seraphine vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Seraphine vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Seraphine
Advice to Win Against Riven
All of Riven's damage is physical, prioritize high Armor if an opposing Riven gets out of control.
Riven has a great deal of mobility but she cannot move very far with any one skill. Rooting or silencing her during her combo will greatly reduce her effectiveness.
Riven excels at dueling multiple melee attackers at once, as she will be on an almost equal footing damage-wise. If pairing up against Riven, don't go in as double melee until she has expended her full combo.
Seraphine vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Seraphine in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some important Seraphine versus Riven matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Seraphine’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Seraphine may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Riven. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Seraphine often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Riven. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Seraphine and Riven
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Who is Better, Seraphine or Riven?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Seraphine usually fairs equally well when facing off against Riven, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Seraphine makes an ok counter to Riven.
While Seraphine does have a lower win rate compared to Riven, when on opposite teams, Seraphine also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Seraphine into Riven.
Moreover, Seraphine has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Seraphine vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Seraphine is a somewhat poor counter to Riven. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Seraphine against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Seraphine to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Seraphine typically gets less CS relative to Riven. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Seraphine versus Riven build consist of Cosmic Drive, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Seraphine used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Riven than with most other common item sets. In fact, Seraphine had an average winrate of 49.7% when countering Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Riven as Seraphine, Seraphine players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cosmic Insight, and Triple Tonic runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Seraphine vs Riven counters, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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