Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
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 Pantheon 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, Pantheon sees a large worsening 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 Pantheon perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Pantheon is an ally to Riven, he observes a measurable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Riven doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Pantheon is played alongside 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 synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Pantheon plays with Riven on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Pantheon during team fights.
There is no one best companion for Pantheon that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Riven is a relatively poor teammate for Pantheon. By locking into the same team as Pantheon, she lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 47.8%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Pantheon and Riven that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Pantheon. That means Pantheon players must be careful when lining up Riven comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Pantheon and Riven together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough magic damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Pantheon in order to pair well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Pantheon and Riven synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Bloodsong, and Sundered Sky. When Pantheon included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Riven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Pantheon had an average winrate of 47.8% helping carry Riven with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Pantheon players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
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