Zac vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Zac
based on 2,779 Zac vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Riven
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Advice to Win Against Riven
All of Riven's damage is physical, prioritize high Armor if an opposing Riven gets out of control.
Riven has a great deal of mobility but she cannot move very far with any one skill. Rooting or silencing her during her combo will greatly reduce her effectiveness.
Riven excels at dueling multiple melee attackers at once, as she will be on an almost equal footing damage-wise. If pairing up against Riven, don't go in as double melee until she has expended her full combo.
Zac vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Zac in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several influential Zac versus Riven counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between the pair. Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Riven’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Zac normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Riven. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zac and Riven
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Who is Better, Zac or Riven?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zac usually wins when trying to fight Riven, with a 52.3% win rate. Therefore, Zac makes a good counter for Riven.
While Zac does have a higher winrate compared to Riven, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zac into Rivenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zac also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zac vs Riven matchups, Zac is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Zac is a good counter for Riven. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zac against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zac to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac typically racks up less CS as Riven. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Zac versus Riven build include Unending Despair, Spirit Visage, and Sunfire Aegis. When Zac bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zac boasted an average winrate of 52.3% when playing against Riven with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Riven as Zac, Zac players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Zac vs Riven battles, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.3% winrate overall.
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