Fiddlesticks vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Fiddlesticks
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Fiddlesticks vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Fiddlesticks vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Fiddlesticks
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.
Fiddlesticks vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Fiddlesticks in LoL
The stats shown here feature some vital Fiddlesticks versus Riven matchup statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between the pair. Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Riven. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Fiddlesticks often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Riven. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Fiddlesticks and Riven
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Who is Better, Fiddlesticks or Riven?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually loses when trying to fight Riven, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Fiddlesticks makes a poor counter to Riven.
While Fiddlesticks does have a lower win rate than Riven, when facing one another, Fiddlesticks also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Fiddlesticks into Rivenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Fiddlesticks has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This 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 Fiddlesticks vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Fiddlesticks is a trash counter for Riven. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Fiddlesticks against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Fiddlesticks 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 stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks on average accumulates a lot less CS as Riven. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Fiddlesticks versus Riven build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Fiddlesticks bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Riven than with most other common builds. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average winrate of 47.7% battling Riven with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Riven as Fiddlesticks, Fiddlesticks players should take the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Fiddlesticks vs Riven clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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