Poppy with Riven
How to Synergize Poppy and Riven
based on 1,155 Poppy with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Riven
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Riven
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Poppy perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy is an ally to Riven, she sees a noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This could signal that Riven does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Riven on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Poppy in team fights.
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect ally for Poppy that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, Riven is a good ally for Poppy. By being on the same side as Poppy, she improves their win rate by 1.1% to 50.8%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Poppy and Riven that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Poppy. That means Poppy players need to be careful when arranging Riven allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Poppy and Riven together, you will not be granting your side very much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Poppy to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Poppy and Riven synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average win rate of 50.8% helping carry Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Poppy players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Riven with Poppy are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.