Riven with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Riven and Caitlyn
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Riven Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Riven with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Riven Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Riven in LoL
The Riven Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Caitlyn helps Riven perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is paired with Caitlyn, she sees a little increase in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Caitlyn supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Caitlyn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Caitlyn. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Caitlyn on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Caitlyn does a poor job of protecting Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Caitlyn is a very typical companion for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, she lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 49.8%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Riven and Caitlyn that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when lining up Caitlyn teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Riven and Caitlyn together, you will not be providing your side much magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Caitlyn ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to synergize with Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Riven and Caitlyn synergy build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Caitlyn than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when playing alongside Caitlyn with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Ingenious Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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