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.
Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
The Riven Corki synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Corki, 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 Corki. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Corki helps Riven perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Corki, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Corki supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Corki on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Corki.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Corki on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Corki does a poor job of protecting Riven during team fights.
There is no top ally for Riven that will always be her best teammate. Yet, Corki is a very typical ally for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.1%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Riven and Corki that results in them performing at the same level together than alone.
Corki has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Corki allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Riven players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Corki together, you may not be giving your side enough support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Corki teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to pair well with Corki during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Riven and Corki 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 performed a lot better as an ally of Corki than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Corki with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Riven and Corki pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% win rate overall.
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