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.
The Riven Fiddlesticks synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Fiddlesticks, 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 Fiddlesticks. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Fiddlesticks helps Riven perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Fiddlesticks, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Fiddlesticks supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Fiddlesticks 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 synergisticly with Fiddlesticks.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Fiddlesticks on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Fiddlesticks does a poor job of protecting Riven during teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Riven that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, overall, Fiddlesticks is a very typical teammate for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 49.1%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Riven and Fiddlesticks that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Fiddlesticks has a greater difficulty than Riven. That means you should be careful when lining up Fiddlesticks teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by pairing Riven and Fiddlesticks together, you will not be providing your other teammates much protection for burst damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Fiddlesticks teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to work well with Fiddlesticks during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Riven and Fiddlesticks synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Fiddlesticks than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when playing alongside Fiddlesticks with this build.
To have the greatest probability 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 rune sets players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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