Riven vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Riven
based on 1,579 Riven vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Sivir
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 Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Riven vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some influential Riven against Sivir matchup stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between this pair of champs. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sivir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Sivir..
Riven usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Sivir. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Sivir
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Who is Better, Riven or Sivir?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when taking on Sivir, with a 49.7% win rate. As a result, Riven makes an ok counter to Sivir.
While Riven does have a lower winrate than Sivir, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Siviras her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sivir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Sivir matchups, Sivir is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter for Sivir. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Sivir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Sivir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Sivir. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Riven versus Sivir build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Sivir than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 49.7% when playing against Sivir with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Sivir as Riven, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Riven vs Sivir counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% win rate overall.
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