How to win lane as Kled against Riven · 51.04% win rate over 335 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | You both have weak level 1s — preserve Skaarl's mount health and set up the wave for your level 2-3 all-in rather than trading into her early Q dashes. |
| Level 2 | Kled | Your re-E with W-shotgun shots plus a Bear Trap Q yank out-trades her before her third Q dash and E shield are reliably online — own this overstep. |
| Level 3 | Kled | With Q, W and E up your full re-E combo and Skaarl's free health bar win nearly any all-in if she's spent a dash to CS. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Even — she has all three Q dashes and E shield to sidestep or absorb your engage, so trade only when her dashes are down. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | It's a coin-flip — your R knocks her out of her Q-stun combo, but if she holds E shield and dashes she repositions out and punishes the cooldown. |
| First item | Even / skill | Your Eclipse/Trinity proc and percent-HP Q match her first-item spike, but she can E-shield and dash out of your combo, so neither lands a clean kill. |
| Two+ items | Riven | A fed Riven sidesteps your E with three Q dashes and bursts you inside her W-stun combo once Skaarl is low — group and engage in teamfights instead of dueling her. |
Riven concedes level 1 like I do, but my level 2-3 is the real threat: once I have Q, W and E I can re-E her — E in, fire the W shotgun shots, Bear Trap Q to stick the slow, then E back out. If she's burned a Q dash to last-hit, she can't sidestep the whole combo and Skaarl's free health bar wins the trade. What I dodge is her landing her W stun first; if she stuns me mid-re-E she flips it and chunks me inside her Q-Q-Q. Bait her E shield and her third Q dash, then commit.
The full Kled vs Riven report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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