Zyra vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Zyra
based on 4,893 Zyra vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Riven
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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.
Zyra vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Zyra in LoL
The stats provided here feature some influential Zyra against Riven matchup stats that may help you understand the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Riven’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Riven. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Zyra usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Riven. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zyra and Riven
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Who is Better, Zyra or Riven?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zyra usually wins when trying to fight Riven, with a 53.2% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes a great counter for Riven.
While Zyra does have a higher winrate than Riven, when facing one another, Zyra also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into Rivenas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zyra has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Riven. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Riven matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Zyra is a great counter for Riven. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zyra against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zyra in order to counter Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra most often gets a lot less CS relative to Riven. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Zyra versus Riven build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Zyra used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zyra boasted an average win rate of 53.2% battling Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Riven as Zyra, Zyra players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Zyra vs Riven counter picks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.2% win rate overall.
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