Sylas vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Sylas
based on 3,944 Sylas vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Riven
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Sylas against Riven matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Riven..
Sylas usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Riven. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Riven
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Who is Better, Sylas or Riven?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually loses when trying to fight Riven, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Sylas makes a bad counter to Riven.
While Sylas does have a lower winrate than Riven, when on opposite teams, Sylas also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Sylas into Riven.
Additionally, Sylas also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Sylas is a terribly counter to Riven. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sylas against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sylas in order to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Riven. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Sylas versus Riven build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 47.5% battling Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Riven as Sylas, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Sylas vs Riven fights, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
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