Caitlyn with Riven
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Riven
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Caitlyn Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Riven
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Riven
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Caitlyn perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn plays on the same team as Riven, she gets a small decrease in her total damage output. This difference could signal that Riven does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Riven.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Riven on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Caitlyn in team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top companion for Caitlyn that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Riven is a very typical ally for Caitlyn. By playing on the same team as Caitlyn, she increases their win rate by 0.5% to 49.8%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Caitlyn and Riven that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you need to be very careful when finding Riven allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Caitlyn and Riven together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn in order to synergize with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Caitlyn and Riven synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Rapid Firecannon. When Caitlyn bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Riven than with many other common builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.8% winrate overall.
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