Riven with Alistar
How to Synergize Riven and Alistar
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Riven Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Riven with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Riven Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Riven in LoL
The Riven Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Riven perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is an ally to Alistar, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Alistar provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Alistar 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 alongside Alistar.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Alistar on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Alistar does a decent job of covering Riven during team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Riven that will always be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Alistar is a very typical teammate for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 49.8%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Riven and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Alistar comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Riven players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Riven and Alistar together, you may not be providing your side very much magic damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Riven to work well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Riven and Alistar synergy build consist of Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Alistar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 49.8% helping carry Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.8% winrate overall.
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