Heimerdinger with Riven
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Riven
based on 1,245 Heimerdinger with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Heimerdinger Riven Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Riven
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Riven
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger sees a very large drop 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 Heimerdinger perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Heimerdinger plays on the same team as Riven, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Riven does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Riven on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Heimerdinger in teamfights.
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect companion for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Riven is a very typical ally for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same team as Heimerdinger, she decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Heimerdinger and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means Heimerdinger players don't need to be very careful when arranging Riven teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Heimerdinger and Riven together, you may not be providing your other teammates much AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Heimerdinger to pair well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Heimerdinger and Riven synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 48.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Heimerdinger players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% winrate overall.
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