Riven vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Riven
based on 3,920 Riven vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Riven vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several important Riven vs. Lee Sin matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lee Sin..
Riven often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Lee Sin. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Riven or Lee Sin?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when facing off against Lee Sin, with a 53.0% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a good counter to Lee Sin.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Lee Sin, 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 don't need to be too worried when picking Riven into Lee Sinas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Lee Sin 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 an above average counter for Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your actions 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 Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven typically racks up much more CS relative to Lee Sin. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Riven versus Lee Sin build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Lee Sin than with most other typical builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when countering Lee Sin with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Lee Sin as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Riven vs Lee Sin LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.0% winrate overall.
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