Lee Sin with Riven
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Riven
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Lee Sin Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lee Sin and Riven
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Riven
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin 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, Lee Sin sees a large worsening in his 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 Lee Sin perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lee Sin tries to synergize with Riven, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Riven doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played together with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Lee Sin plays with Riven on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Lee Sin in team fights.
Synergies between Lee Sin and Riven
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Lee Sin that will always be his #1 ally. However, Riven is a very typical ally for Lee Sin. By being on the same team as Lee Sin, she improves their win rate by 0.6% to 47.9%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Lee Sin and Riven that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Lee Sin. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Riven allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Lee Sin and Riven together, you may not be providing your team much magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to pair well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Lee Sin and Riven synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Riven than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 47.9% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
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