Riven vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Riven
based on 3,944 Riven vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Sylas
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 Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Riven vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several vital Riven against Sylas matchup statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sylas’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Sylas..
Riven usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Sylas. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Sylas
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Who is Better, Riven or Sylas?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when taking on Sylas, with a 52.5% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a good counter to Sylas.
While Riven does have a higher winrate than Sylas, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Riven into Sylasas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sylas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Sylas 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Riven is a good counter to Sylas. You will do well by focussing 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 Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Sylas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Sylas. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Riven versus Sylas build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing Sylas than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when playing against Sylas with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Sylas as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Riven vs Sylas clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.5% win rate overall.
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