Kindred vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Kindred
based on 2,379 Kindred vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Riven
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Kindred in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several valuable Kindred vs. Riven counter statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Riven..
Kindred typically has a similar longest killing spree as their enemy does. On average, they takes more damage than Riven. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kindred and Riven
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Who is Better, Kindred or Riven?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually loses when playing against Riven, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Kindred makes a poor counter to Riven.
While Kindred does have a lower win rate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Kindred also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kindred into Riven.
Moreover, Kindred also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kindred 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 allied champions during team fights.
Kindred is a somewhat poor counter for Riven. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kindred against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kindred in order to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred most often picks up a lot less CS relative to Riven. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Kindred versus Riven build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better countering Riven than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Kindred had an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Riven with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Riven as Kindred, Kindred players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Kindred vs Riven counters, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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