Riven vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Riven
based on 3,150 Riven vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Sion
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 Sion
Use the time after Sion has died to reposition and prepare for his return.
Even if Sion still hits a Decimating Smash, making him release the charge earlier reduces its impact.
Riven vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some influential Riven versus Sion counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sion’s ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Sion. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Riven typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Sion. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Sion
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Who is Better, Riven or Sion?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when playing against Sion, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a good counter to Sion.
While Riven does have a higher win rate compared to Sion, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Sionas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sion. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Sion matchups, Riven is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Riven is a decent counter for Sion. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Riven against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Sion during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Sion. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Riven versus Sion build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Sion than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 51.3% when playing against Sion with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Sion as Riven, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Riven vs Sion counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
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