Riven with Braum
How to Synergize Riven and Braum
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Riven Braum Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Braum
Tips for Playing as Riven with Braum
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 Braum Will Play
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
Riven Braum Synergy Stats
How to Play with Braum as Riven in LoL
The Riven Braum synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Braum, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Braum. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Braum helps Riven perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Braum, she observes a barely noticable drop in her total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Braum does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Braum on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Braum. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Braum.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Braum on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Braum does a decent job of covering Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Braum?
There is no one best synergy for Riven that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Braum is a pretty good teammate for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 51.1%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Riven and Braum that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Braum has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Braum comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, Riven players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by bringing Riven and Braum together, you probably will not be providing your side enough AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Braum teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven in order to synergize with Braum during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Riven and Braum synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Braum than with many other common builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 51.1% when playing alongside Braum with this build.
To have the best probability of beating 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 rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
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