Riven with Akali
How to Synergize Riven and Akali
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Riven Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Akali
Tips for Playing as Riven with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Riven Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Riven in LoL
The Riven Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, 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 Akali. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akali helps Riven perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven plays on the same team as Akali, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This change could indicate that Akali helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Akali.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Akali on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Akali does a poor job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top companion for Riven that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Akali is a relatively poor companion for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, she decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Riven and Akali that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when enlisting Akali teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Riven and Akali together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Akali ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to work well with Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Riven and Akali synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Akali than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Riven and Akali pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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