Sejuani vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Sejuani
based on 1,152 Sejuani vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sejuani vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Sejuani vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Sejuani
Tips for Playing as Sejuani against Riven
Melee allies can stack Frost for your Permafrost, keep an eye on who they are attacking.
Save Glacial Prison for encounters where you have teammates present to take advantage of it.
Use Arctic Assault to escape bad situations, interupt channeled spells or chase runners.
Advice to Win Against Riven
All of Riven's damage is physical, prioritize high Armor if an opposing Riven gets out of control.
Riven has a great deal of mobility but she cannot move very far with any one skill. Rooting or silencing her during her combo will greatly reduce her effectiveness.
Riven excels at dueling multiple melee attackers at once, as she will be on an almost equal footing damage-wise. If pairing up against Riven, don't go in as double melee until she has expended her full combo.
Sejuani vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Sejuani in LoL
The stats provided here feature several critical Sejuani against Riven counter stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Sejuani’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sejuani may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Riven. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Sejuani normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives more damage than Riven. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sejuani and Riven
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Who is Better, Sejuani or Riven?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sejuani usually loses when trying to fight Riven, with a 46.9% win rate. As a result, Sejuani makes a bad counter for Riven.
While Sejuani does have a lower winrate than Riven, when facing one another, Sejuani also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Sejuani into Riven.
Furthermore, Sejuani also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sejuani vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Sejuani is a terribly counter for Riven. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Sejuani against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sejuani in order to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sejuani most often gets a lot less CS as Riven. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Sejuani versus Riven build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Sejuani used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Sejuani had an average winrate of 46.9% battling Riven with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Riven as Sejuani, Sejuani players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Sejuani vs Riven counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Riven as Sejuani are shown for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.