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.
After being marked, move away from Quinn so she can't take advantage of it.
Keep tabs on Quinn's position. Behind Enemy Lines can enable Valor to cross the map very quickly and attack you by surprise.
When Quinn is using Behind Enemy Lines, damaging her removes her Move Speed bonus temporarily.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several significant Riven against Quinn matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Quinn’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Quinn..
Riven often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Quinn. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Riven usually loses when trying to fight Quinn, with a 46.2% win rate. Thus, Riven makes a bad counter to Quinn.
While Riven does have a lower winrate than Quinn, when facing one another, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Riven into Quinnas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Quinn. 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 Quinn matchups, Quinn is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Riven is a garbage counter for Quinn. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Quinn.
If you would like to truly master Riven to counter Quinn 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 listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Quinn. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Riven versus Quinn build include Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Quinn than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 46.2% when playing against Quinn with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Quinn as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Riven vs Quinn counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
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