Riven vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Riven
based on 1,562 Riven vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Riven vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several vital Riven versus Lissandra counter stats that can help us realize the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lissandra..
Riven usually has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Lissandra. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Riven and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Riven or Lissandra?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when taking on Lissandra, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Riven makes an ok counter for Lissandra.
While Riven does have a higher win rate compared to Lissandra, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Riven into Lissandraas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Lissandra matchups, Riven is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Riven is a decent counter to Lissandra. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to counter Lissandra 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 listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Lissandra. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They 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, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Riven versus Lissandra build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Lissandra than with many other common builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 50.8% when countering Lissandra with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Lissandra as Riven, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Riven vs Lissandra LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lissandra as Riven are shown for all skill levels combined. To filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.