Riven vs Shen
How to Beat Shen as Riven
based on 2,128 Riven vs Shen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Shen Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shen as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Shen
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 Shen
Be ready to dodge Shen's taunt and punish him if he misses.
Once Shen reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, which can turn fights quickly.
Riven vs Shen Counter Stats
How to Counter Shen with Riven in LoL
The stats shown here show some critical Riven against Shen counter statistics that can help you realize the differences between the two. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Shen..
Riven typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Shen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Shen
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Who is Better, Riven or Shen?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Riven usually wins when trying to fight Shen, with a 52.1% win rate. Therefore, Riven makes a good counter for Shen.
While Riven does have a higher win rate compared to Shen, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Riven into Shenas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Riven also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Shen matchups, Riven is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Riven is a good counter for Shen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Riven against Shen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to counter Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Shen. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Riven versus Shen build consist of Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Shen than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 52.1% when playing against Shen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Shen as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Riven vs Shen face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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