Karma with Riven
How to Synergize Karma and Riven
based on 3,335 Karma with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Karma Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Karma and Riven
Tips for Playing as Karma with Riven
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
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.
Karma Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Karma in LoL
The Karma 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, Karma 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 Karma perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Karma is paired with Riven, she gets a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This could signal that Riven doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Karma is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Karma plays with Riven on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Karma during team fights.
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Is Karma better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect companion for Karma that will always be her #1 ally. However, Riven is a good companion for Karma. By being on the same side as Karma, she increases their win rate by 1.8% to 50.1%. This proves that there is pretty good synergy between Karma and Riven that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Karma. That means you need to be cautious when finding Riven allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by aligning Karma and Riven together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Karma in order to work well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Karma and Riven synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Ardent Censer, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Karma used at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Riven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Karma boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Karma players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Karma and Riven pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Riven with Karma are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.