Riven vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Riven
based on 4,841 Riven vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Riven vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some valuable Riven versus Kai'Sa counter statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kai'Sa..
Riven normally has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Kai'Sa. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Riven or Kai'Sa?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when facing off against Kai'Sa, with a 54.2% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a great counter for Kai'Sa.
While Riven does have a much higher winrate compared to Kai'Sa, when facing one another, Riven also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Riven into Kai'Saas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Kai'Sa matchups, Riven is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Riven is a great counter to Kai'Sa. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Kai'Sa.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Kai'Sa during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kai'Sa. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Riven versus Kai'Sa build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Kai'Sa than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 54.2% battling Kai'Sa with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Kai'Sa as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Riven vs Kai'Sa counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.2% win rate overall.
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