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.
The Nilah Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nilah sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Nilah perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nilah is an ally to Riven, they sees a little decrease in their full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Riven does not provide cover for them to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nilah is played together with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Nilah plays with Riven on the same team, they usually takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Nilah during teamfights.
There is no perfect companion for Nilah that will no matter what be their ideal synergy. However, Riven is a very typical ally for Nilah. By playing on the same team as Nilah, she decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 52.0%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Nilah and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Nilah. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Riven comrades to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Nilah and Riven together, you may not be granting your other allies enough magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nilah in order to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Nilah and Riven synergy build include Bloodthirster, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Nilah used at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better as an ally of Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nilah had an average winrate of 52.0% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Nilah players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.0% win rate overall.
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