Gwen with Riven
How to Synergize Gwen and Riven
based on 678 Gwen with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Riven Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Riven
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Riven
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen 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, Gwen sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Gwen perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen tries to synergize with Riven, she observes a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Riven doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played together with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Gwen plays with Riven on the same side, she on average takes more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Riven does a poor job of covering Gwen in teamfights.
Synergies between Gwen and Riven
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best champion pairing for Gwen that will always be her best teammate. However, overall, Riven is a very typical teammate for Gwen. By playing on the same team as Gwen, she lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 47.8%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Gwen and Riven that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Gwen. That means you should be careful when arranging Riven teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Gwen and Riven together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of magic damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 Gwen in order to synergize with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather 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 significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Gwen and Riven synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Gwen incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gwen had an average winrate of 47.8% helping carry Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Gwen and Riven pairings, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Riven with Gwen are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.