Katarina with Riven
How to Synergize Katarina and Riven
based on 4,251 Katarina with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Riven Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Riven
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Riven
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Katarina perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina is paired with Riven, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Riven supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Riven on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Riven
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top ally for Katarina that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Riven is a very typical teammate for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, she improves their win rate by 0.1% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Katarina and Riven that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Riven teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Katarina and Riven together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of support. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to pair well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Katarina and Riven synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Riven than with most other common builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.9% when playing alongside Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Katarina and Riven pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Riven with Katarina are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.