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.
Fizz's spells scale off Ability Power - consider getting items like Zhonya's Hourglass or Banshee's Veil against teams that have high burst threat - and items like Lich Bane or Rabadon's Deathcap if you think you can survive without the Health.
Since Fizz can move through units, find opportunities in lane to walk through minions and apply Seastone Trident's passive - following it up with the ability's active attack after a few seconds.
Fizz's ultimate ability, Chum the Waters, can be aimed at an enemy or towards the area where you think they'll be going.
The Riven Fizz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Fizz, 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 Fizz. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Fizz helps Riven perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Fizz, she gets a little increase in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Fizz helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Fizz 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 Fizz.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Fizz on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Fizz does a poor job of covering Riven in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Riven that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, Fizz is a pretty good ally for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 51.6%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Riven and Fizz that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Fizz has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Fizz teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Riven and Fizz together, you may not be granting your other teammates much crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Fizz teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to work well with Fizz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Riven and Fizz synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Fizz than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Fizz with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.6% win rate overall.
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