Riven with Garen
How to Synergize Riven and Garen
based on 616 Riven with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Garen Synergy Summary
Best Riven vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Garen
Tips for Playing as Riven with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Riven Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Riven in LoL
The Riven Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Garen helps Riven perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Garen, she observes a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Garen helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Garen on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Garen does a poor job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
Synergies between Riven and Garen
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Is Riven better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal synergy for Riven that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, Garen is a very bad ally for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he decreases their win rate by -3.8% to 46.3%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Riven and Garen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Garen allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Riven and Garen together, you probably will not be granting your side enough magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you should 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 pair well with Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Riven and Garen synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 46.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Garen with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Riven and Garen pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.3% winrate overall.
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