Riven vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Riven
based on 1,786 Riven vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Kassadin
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Advice to Win Against Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Riven vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some critical Riven versus Kassadin matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences between these two champs. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kassadin..
Riven typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Kassadin. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Riven or Kassadin?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when facing off against Kassadin, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a good counter for Kassadin.
While Riven does have a higher winrate than Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Riven also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Kassadinas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Kassadin matchups, Riven is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Riven is a decent counter for Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Kassadin. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Riven versus Kassadin build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Kassadin than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Kassadin with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Kassadin as Riven, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Riven vs Kassadin face-offs, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.9% win rate overall.
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