Riven vs Seraphine
How to Beat Seraphine as Riven
based on 5,560 Riven vs Seraphine matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Seraphine Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Seraphine Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Seraphine as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Seraphine
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.
Riven vs Seraphine Counter Stats
How to Counter Seraphine with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some valuable Riven vs. Seraphine counter stats that can help you interpret the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Seraphine’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Seraphine. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Riven usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Seraphine. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Seraphine
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Who is Better, Riven or Seraphine?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Seraphine, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Riven makes an ok counter for Seraphine.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Seraphine, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Seraphineas her relative depth means that 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 Seraphine. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Riven vs Seraphine matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Seraphine. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Seraphine.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven to counter Seraphine during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often picks up more CS relative to Seraphine. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Riven versus Seraphine build include Black Cleaver, Maw of Malmortius, and Spear of Shojin. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Seraphine than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 50.3% when countering Seraphine with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Seraphine as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Riven vs Seraphine counters, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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