Ziggs vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Ziggs
based on 1,585 Ziggs vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Riven
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Ziggs in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some critical Ziggs vs. Riven matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven..
Ziggs usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Riven. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ziggs and Riven
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Riven?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when taking on Riven, with a 47.3% win rate. As a result, Ziggs makes a bad counter for Riven.
While Ziggs does have a lower win rate than Riven, when facing one another, Ziggs also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ziggs into Riven.
Furthermore, Ziggs also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ziggs is a bad counter to Riven. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ziggs against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs to counter Riven 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 mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Riven. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Ziggs versus Riven build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Riven than with many other common builds. In fact, Ziggs had an average win rate of 47.3% battling Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Riven as Ziggs, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Ziggs vs Riven LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.3% winrate overall.
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