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.
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
The Riven Aatrox synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aatrox, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Riven sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aatrox. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Aatrox helps Riven perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is an ally to Aatrox, she observes a moderate decrease in her full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Aatrox doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Aatrox on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Aatrox.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Aatrox on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Aatrox does a decent job of covering Riven during team fights.
There is no one best ally for Riven that will always be her #1 ally. However, Aatrox is a relatively poor companion for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he drops their win rate by -2.1% to 48.0%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Riven and Aatrox that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Aatrox has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when lining up Aatrox teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Riven players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Riven and Aatrox together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Aatrox ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to work well with Aatrox during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Riven and Aatrox synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Aatrox than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 48.0% when playing alongside Aatrox with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Riven and Aatrox pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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