Riven with Galio
How to Synergize Riven and Galio
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Riven Galio Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Galio
Tips for Playing as Riven with Galio
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 Galio Will Play
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
Riven Galio Synergy Stats
How to Play with Galio as Riven in LoL
The Riven Galio synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Galio, 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 Galio. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Galio helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is paired with Galio, she observes a little increase in her total damage output. This could demonstrate that Galio helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Galio 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 Galio.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Galio on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Galio does a decent job of protecting Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Galio?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Riven that will always be her best teammate. However, overall, Galio is a very typical ally for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 49.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between Riven and Galio that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Galio has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Galio comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Riven and Galio together, you may not be giving your team enough magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Galio ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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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 Galio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Riven and Galio synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Galio than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Galio with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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