Riven vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Riven
based on 4,258 Riven vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
Riven vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some influential Riven versus Xin Zhao matchup stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao..
Riven typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Xin Zhao. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Riven or Xin Zhao?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when taking on Xin Zhao, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Riven makes an ok counter to Xin Zhao.
While Riven does have a higher winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Xin Zhaoas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Xin Zhao matchups, Riven is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Xin Zhao. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Riven against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often picks up much more CS relative to Xin Zhao. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Riven versus Xin Zhao build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Xin Zhao than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 50.3% battling Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Xin Zhao as Riven, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Riven vs Xin Zhao face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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