K'Sante vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as K'Sante
based on 2,347 K'Sante vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Riven
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with K'Sante in LoL
The stats provided here feature several significant K'Sante versus Riven matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between this set of champions. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Riven..
K'Sante often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than their foe does. Typically, they receives more damage than Riven. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Riven
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Riven?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when facing off against Riven, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a bad counter to Riven.
While K'Sante does have a lower winrate than Riven, when facing one another, K'Sante also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more difficult character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking K'Sante into Rivenas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
K'Sante is a bad counter to Riven. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as K'Sante against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Riven. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your K'Sante versus Riven build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When K'Sante incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better against Riven than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 46.3% when countering Riven with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Riven as K'Sante, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for K'Sante vs Riven clashes, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.3% winrate overall.
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