Gragas with Riven
How to Synergize Gragas and Riven
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Gragas Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Riven
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Riven
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Riven helps Gragas perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is paired with Riven, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Riven doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Riven on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Riven does a poor job of protecting Gragas during teamfights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect ally for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Riven is a very typical ally for Gragas. By playing on the same side as Gragas, she raises their win rate by 0.6% to 48.5%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Gragas and Riven that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players need to be cautious when arranging Riven teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gragas and Riven together, you probably will not be granting your team very much magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to work well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Gragas and Riven synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 48.5% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Riven with Gragas are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.