Riven vs Fizz
How to Beat Fizz as Riven
based on 6,182 Riven vs Fizz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Fizz Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Fizz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Fizz as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Fizz
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 Fizz
Fizz's attacks becomes more deadly for a few seconds after he uses his empowered attack - keep him away while his trident is glowing!
Fizz is a slippery target when his abilities are not on cooldown - bait him into using them early and follow up with crowd control or hard-hitting attacks!
Riven vs Fizz Counter Stats
How to Counter Fizz with Riven in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several strategic Riven against Fizz matchup stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Fizz’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Fizz..
Riven often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Fizz. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Fizz
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Who is Better, Riven or Fizz?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually loses when facing off against Fizz, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a poor counter for Fizz.
While Riven does have a lower win rate than Fizz, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Fizzas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fizz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Fizz matchups, Fizz 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.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter for Fizz. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Riven against Fizz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Fizz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Fizz. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Riven versus Fizz build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Fizz than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 48.2% battling Fizz with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Fizz as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Riven vs Fizz counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
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