Riven with Gangplank
How to Synergize Riven and Gangplank
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Riven Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Riven with Gangplank
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 Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Riven Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Riven in LoL
The Riven Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, 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 Gangplank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gangplank helps Riven perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Gangplank, she gets a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This could signal that Gangplank does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gangplank.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Gangplank on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Riven during team fights.
Synergies between Riven and Gangplank
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Is Riven better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no one best champion pairing for Riven that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, overall, Gangplank is a not very good companion for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 48.6%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Riven and Gangplank that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Riven. That means you need to be careful when lining up Gangplank allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should witness 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.
Although, by pairing Riven and Gangplank together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven to work well with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Riven and Gangplank synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Gangplank than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Gangplank with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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