Grand Challenge allows Fiora to take down even the most durable opponents and then recover if successful, so do not hesitate to attack the enemy's front line.
Thanks to Duelist's Dance, Fiora excels at quick trades. Use the Move Speed boost from striking a Vital to escape unscathed or set up for the next one.
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.
The stats shown here underscore several strategic Fiora versus Riven matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Fiora’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Fiora may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Riven..
Fiora usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Riven. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fiora usually fairs equally well when taking on Riven, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Fiora makes an ok counter to Riven.
While Fiora does have a lower win rate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Fiora also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Fiora into Riven.
Moreover, Fiora also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Fiora vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Fiora is a somewhat poor counter for Riven. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fiora against Riven.
To truly master Fiora in order to counter Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiora typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Riven. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Fiora versus Riven build include Ravenous Hydra, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Fiora bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Riven than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Fiora boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when playing against Riven with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Riven as Fiora, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Fiora vs Riven clashes, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Riven as Fiora are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.