Akshan with Riven
How to Synergize Akshan and Riven
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Akshan Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Riven
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Riven
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Understand How Riven Will Play
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.
Akshan Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Riven helps Akshan perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akshan is an ally to Riven, they sees a small decrease in their full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Riven does not support by providing cover for them to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Akshan plays with Riven on the same side, they typically takes a little less damage than when they plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Akshan during team fights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best champion pairing for Akshan that will always be their ideal teammate. However, Riven is a very typical companion for Akshan. By playing on the same team as Akshan, she decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 48.5%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Akshan and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means you should be cautious when finding Riven allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Akshan and Riven together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to pair well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Akshan and Riven synergy build include Rapid Firecannon, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan included at least these three finished items in their build, they performed significantly better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akshan boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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