Riven vs Sejuani
How to Beat Sejuani as Riven
based on 1,152 Riven vs Sejuani matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Sejuani Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Sejuani Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sejuani as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Sejuani
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 Sejuani
Dodging Arctic Assault and Glacial Prison can give you a huge advantage.
Focus on avoiding the second swing of Winter's Wrath which carries the brunt of the damage.
Melee enemies can also stack Frost for Sejuani, be very careful around them.
Riven vs Sejuani Counter Stats
How to Counter Sejuani with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some influential Riven against Sejuani counter statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sejuani’s ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Sejuani..
Riven often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Sejuani. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Sejuani
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Who is Better, Riven or Sejuani?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when trying to fight Sejuani, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a great counter to Sejuani.
While Riven does have a higher win rate compared to Sejuani, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Riven into Sejuanias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sejuani. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Sejuani matchups, Riven is the better champion with a noticably 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 great counter to Sejuani. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Riven against Sejuani.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter Sejuani 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 tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average picks up much more CS compared to Sejuani. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Riven versus Sejuani build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Sejuani than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 53.1% battling Sejuani with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Sejuani as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Riven vs Sejuani face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Sejuani as Riven are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.