Kha'Zix with Riven
How to Synergize Kha'Zix and Riven
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Kha'Zix Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kha'Zix and Riven
Tips for Playing as Kha'Zix with Riven
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
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.
Kha'Zix Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Kha'Zix in LoL
The Kha'Zix 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, Kha'Zix sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Kha'Zix perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kha'Zix is paired with Riven, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This change may signal that Riven doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kha'Zix is played together with 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 alongside Riven.
Moreover, when Kha'Zix plays with Riven on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Kha'Zix during teamfights.
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Is Kha'Zix better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect ally for Kha'Zix that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Riven is a very typical companion for Kha'Zix. By being on the same side as Kha'Zix, she raises their win rate by 0.4% to 49.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Kha'Zix and Riven that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Kha'Zix. That means you should be cautious when lining up Riven comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Kha'Zix players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kha'Zix and Riven together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kha'Zix to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Kha'Zix and Riven synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Hubris. When Kha'Zix incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kha'Zix boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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