Graves with Riven
How to Synergize Graves and Riven
based on 5,163 Graves with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Riven Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Riven Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Graves Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Graves and Riven
Tips for Playing as Graves with Riven
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Graves in LoL
The Graves 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, Graves 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 negative change shows that Riven helps Graves perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is paired with Riven, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Riven doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Riven on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Graves in team fights.
Synergies between Graves and Riven
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Graves better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best synergy for Graves that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Riven is a very typical companion for Graves. By playing on the same team as Graves, she increases their win rate by 0.8% to 51.3%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Graves and Riven that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you must be careful when arranging Riven comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, Graves players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Graves and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Graves
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Graves Players
How We Calculated Our Graves Riven Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves in order to synergize with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Graves and Riven synergy build include Guardian Angel, Black Cleaver, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Graves used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Riven than with most other common item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 51.3% when playing alongside Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Riven with Graves are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.