Master Yi with Riven
How to Synergize Master Yi and Riven
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Master Yi Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Master Yi and Riven
Tips for Playing as Master Yi with Riven
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
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.
Master Yi Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Master Yi in LoL
The Master Yi 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, Master Yi sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Riven helps Master Yi perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Master Yi is paired with Riven, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Riven does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Master Yi is played with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Master Yi plays with Riven on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Master Yi in teamfights.
Synergies between Master Yi and Riven
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Is Master Yi better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Master Yi that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Riven is a below average companion for Master Yi. By being on the same team as Master Yi, she lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 49.0%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Master Yi and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Master Yi. That means Master Yi players must be cautious when finding Riven allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Master Yi players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Master Yi and Riven together, you may not be providing your other allies enough AP. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Master Yi to synergize with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Master Yi and Riven synergy build include Guardian Angel, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Master Yi combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Riven than with most other common builds. In fact, Master Yi had an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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