Singed vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Singed
based on 2,825 Singed vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Singed vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Singed vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Singed
Tips for Playing as Singed against Riven
Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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.
Singed vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Singed in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several significant Singed vs. Riven matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s ratio of NaN, showing that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven..
Singed typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Riven. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Singed and Riven
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Who is Better, Singed or Riven?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Singed usually fairs equally well when facing off against Riven, with a 49.8% win rate. Thus, Singed makes an ok counter for Riven.
While Singed does have a lower win rate than Riven, when on opposite teams, Singed also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Singed into Riven.
Furthermore, Singed also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Singed vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Singed is a somewhat poor counter for Riven. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Singed against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Singed to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Riven. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Singed versus Riven build consist of Frozen Heart, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Singed combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Singed boasted an average winrate of 49.8% battling Riven with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Riven as Singed, Singed players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Singed vs Riven matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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