Riven vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Riven
based on 2,347 Riven vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against K'Sante
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 K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Riven vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several valuable Riven vs. K'Sante matchup stats that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than K'Sante..
Riven normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than K'Sante. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Riven or K'Sante?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Riven usually wins when trying to fight K'Sante, with a 53.7% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a great counter to K'Sante.
While Riven does have a higher winrate than K'Sante, when facing one another, Riven also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Riven into K'Santeas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to K'Sante. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs K'Sante matchups, Riven is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Riven is a great counter for K'Sante. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Riven against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to counter K'Sante during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as K'Sante. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Riven versus K'Sante build include Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. K'Sante than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 53.7% when countering K'Sante with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing K'Sante as Riven, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Riven vs K'Sante counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.7% win rate overall.
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