Wukong with Riven
How to Synergize Wukong and Riven
based on 755 Wukong with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Wukong Riven Synergy Summary
Best Wukong vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Wukong and Riven
Tips for Playing as Wukong with Riven
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
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.
Wukong Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Wukong in LoL
The Wukong 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, Wukong 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 worsening shows that Riven helps Wukong perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Wukong tries to synergize with Riven, he gets a measurable drop in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Riven does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Wukong is played alongside 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 alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Wukong plays with Riven on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Riven does a poor job of protecting Wukong during team fights.
Synergies between Wukong and Riven
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Is Wukong better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect synergy for Wukong that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Riven is a decent teammate for Wukong. By playing on the same side as Wukong, she improves their win rate by 2.3% to 51.7%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Wukong and Riven that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Wukong. That means you need to be careful when lining up Riven comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Wukong and Riven together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Wukong to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Wukong and Riven synergy build include Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Riven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Wukong had an average winrate of 51.7% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Riven with Wukong are given for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.