Riven vs Jinx
How to Beat Jinx as Riven
based on 5,819 Riven vs Jinx matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Jinx Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Jinx Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jinx as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Jinx
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 Jinx
Jinx's ultimate does less damage the closer you are to her.
Jinx's minigun takes time to ramp up. If you see her poking with rockets try to jump on her and burst her down.
Jinx's snare grenades have a long cooldown and are her primary means of protecting herself. If she misses with them she will have a hard time escaping if engaged upon.
Riven vs Jinx Counter Stats
How to Counter Jinx with Riven in LoL
The stats provided here feature several vital Riven vs. Jinx counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jinx’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Jinx..
Riven often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Jinx. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Jinx
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Who is Better, Riven or Jinx?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when taking on Jinx, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a good counter for Jinx.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Jinx, when facing one another, Riven also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Jinxas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jinx. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Jinx matchups, Riven is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Jinx. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Jinx.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven to counter Jinx during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Jinx. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Riven versus Jinx build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Jinx than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 51.4% battling Jinx with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Jinx as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Riven vs Jinx battles, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.4% winrate overall.
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