Riven with Gnar
How to Synergize Riven and Gnar
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Riven Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Riven vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Riven with Gnar
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 Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Riven Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Riven in LoL
The Riven Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Riven perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is an ally to Gnar, she observes a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Gnar does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Gnar 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 Gnar.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Gnar on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Gnar does a poor job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no top synergy for Riven that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Gnar is a very typical ally for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Riven and Gnar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gnar has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when finding Gnar teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and Gnar together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 in order to pair well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Riven and Gnar synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Eclipse, and Profane Hydra. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Gnar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 50.0% helping carry Gnar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating 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 combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
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