Draven with Riven
How to Synergize Draven and Riven
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Draven Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Draven and Riven
Tips for Playing as Draven with Riven
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
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.
Draven Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Draven in LoL
The Draven Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Draven sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Riven helps Draven perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Draven is paired with Riven, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This may indicate that Riven doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Draven is played together with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Additionally, when Draven plays with Riven on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Draven during team fights.
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Is Draven better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Draven that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Riven is a not very good teammate for Draven. By being on the same side as Draven, she decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 48.1%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Draven and Riven that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Draven. That means Draven players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Riven allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Draven players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Draven and Riven together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of AP. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Draven in order to synergize with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Draven and Riven synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Hubris. When Draven used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other common item sets. In fact, Draven had an average win rate of 48.1% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Legend: Bloodline runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% winrate overall.
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