Zed vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Zed
based on 4,434 Zed vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Riven
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Zed in LoL
The stats shown here show several critical Zed versus Riven counter stats that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven..
Zed typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Riven. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Riven
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Who is Better, Zed or Riven?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when facing off against Riven, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Zed makes a poor counter to Riven.
While Zed does have a lower winrate than Riven, when facing one another, Zed also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zed into Rivenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zed is a terribly counter for Riven. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Riven. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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 require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zed versus Riven build include Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Riven than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 47.6% battling Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Riven as Zed, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Zed vs Riven counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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