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.
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
The Riven Anivia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Anivia, 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 Anivia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Anivia helps Riven perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven plays on the same team as Anivia, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Anivia supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Anivia 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 Anivia.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Anivia on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Anivia does a poor job of covering Riven during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Riven that will no matter what be her top synergy. However, overall, Anivia is a pretty good teammate for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, she increases their win rate by 2.3% to 52.4%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Riven and Anivia that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Anivia has a greater difficulty than Riven. That means you must be very careful when arranging Anivia allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Riven and Anivia together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Anivia ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to pair well with Anivia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Riven and Anivia synergy build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Anivia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 52.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Anivia with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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