Riven vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Riven
based on 4,893 Riven vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Zyra Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Zyra
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 Zyra
Moving closer to Zyra can be a smart move if she places plants too far away from herself.
Moving the fight to a different area will deprive Zyra of accumulated seeds.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
Zyra's seeds can be destroyed by stepping on them. If she tries to grow them as you do, dodge back at the last moment.
Riven vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Riven in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some influential Riven vs. Zyra matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Riven usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes more damage than Zyra. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Zyra
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Who is Better, Riven or Zyra?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually loses when playing against Zyra, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Riven makes a bad counter to Zyra.
While Riven does have a lower win rate compared to Zyra, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Riven into Zyraas 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Riven vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Riven is a terribly counter to Zyra. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Riven against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven on average gets much more CS relative to Zyra. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Riven versus Zyra build include Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Zyra than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 46.8% when playing against Zyra with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Zyra as Riven, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Riven vs Zyra battles, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.8% winrate overall.
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