Rengar with Riven
How to Synergize Rengar and Riven
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Rengar Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rengar and Riven
Tips for Playing as Rengar with Riven
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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.
Rengar Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Rengar in LoL
The Rengar 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, Rengar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Rengar perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rengar tries to synergize with Riven, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Riven doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rengar is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Rengar plays with Riven on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Rengar during team fights.
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Is Rengar better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal companion for Rengar that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Riven is a very typical teammate for Rengar. By locking into the same side as Rengar, she raises their win rate by 0.2% to 49.2%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Rengar and Riven that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Rengar. That means Rengar players don't need to be cautious when finding Riven teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Rengar and Riven together, you may not be providing your side much magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rengar in order to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Rengar and Riven synergy build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Profane Hydra. When Rengar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Riven than with most other typical builds. In fact, Rengar had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing alongside Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% winrate overall.
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