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.
The Fiddlesticks 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, Fiddlesticks 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 worsening shows that Riven helps Fiddlesticks perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Fiddlesticks is an ally to Riven, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Riven helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Fiddlesticks is played with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Fiddlesticks plays with Riven on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Fiddlesticks in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Fiddlesticks that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Riven is a very typical teammate for Fiddlesticks. By playing on the same team as Fiddlesticks, she increases their win rate by 0.1% to 49.1%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Fiddlesticks and Riven that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Fiddlesticks. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Riven allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Fiddlesticks players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by aligning Fiddlesticks and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of protection for burst damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Fiddlesticks in order to pair well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Fiddlesticks and Riven synergy build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Riven than with many other common item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Fiddlesticks players should take the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Riven with Fiddlesticks are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.