Riven vs Zoe
How to Beat Zoe as Riven
based on 1,481 Riven vs Zoe matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Zoe Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Zoe Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zoe as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Zoe
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 Zoe
Zoe's Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown.
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Stop Zoe from hiding in fog of war to prevent her from setting the spell up.
Zoe must return to her starting point after casting Portal Jump, making her vulnerable to a counterattack.
Riven vs Zoe Counter Stats
How to Counter Zoe with Riven in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several vital Riven vs. Zoe matchup stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zoe’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zoe..
Riven often has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Zoe. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Zoe
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Who is Better, Riven or Zoe?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when taking on Zoe, with a 51.0% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a good counter to Zoe.
While Riven does have a higher win rate than Zoe, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Zoeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Riven also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zoe. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Zoe matchups, Riven is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Zoe. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Zoe.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Zoe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Zoe. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Riven versus Zoe build include Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Zoe than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 51.0% when countering Zoe with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Zoe 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 picked for Riven vs Zoe LoL games, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.0% winrate overall.
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