Irelia with Riven
How to Synergize Irelia and Riven
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Irelia Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Riven
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Riven
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia 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, Irelia sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Irelia perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia plays on the same team as Riven, she observes a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Riven does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played together with Riven on the same team, 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 synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Riven on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Irelia in team fights.
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Irelia that will no matter what be her top teammate. However, Riven is a top-tier ally for Irelia. By locking into the same team as Irelia, she raises their win rate by 3.2% to 53.0%. This signals that there is an important bond between Irelia and Riven that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means you need to be careful when finding Riven teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Irelia and Riven together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 Irelia in order to work well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Irelia and Riven synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia combined at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 53.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Riven with Irelia are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.