Riven vs Jhin
How to Beat Jhin as Riven
based on 13,864 Riven vs Jhin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Jhin Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jhin as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Jhin
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 Jhin
Jhin places invisible traps around the map. Watch where you step!
Jhin's attacks are quite potent, but he runs out of ammo after the 4th shot. Use this window to jump him and burst him down.
Deadly Flourish only roots those hit by one of Jhin's basic attacks, traps, or allies within the last 4 seconds.
Riven vs Jhin Counter Stats
How to Counter Jhin with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several valuable Riven versus Jhin counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jhin’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Jhin..
Riven usually has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Jhin. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Jhin
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Who is Better, Riven or Jhin?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when taking on Jhin, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Riven makes an ok counter for Jhin.
While Riven does have a lower win rate compared to Jhin, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Jhinas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jhin. This often 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 Riven vs Jhin matchups, Jhin is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter for Jhin. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Riven against Jhin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Jhin during both the early game 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 listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Jhin. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Riven versus Jhin build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Jhin than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 49.4% when countering Jhin with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Jhin as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Ingenious Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Riven vs Jhin counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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