Riven with Gragas
How to Synergize Riven and Gragas
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Riven Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Riven with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Riven Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Riven in LoL
The Riven Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gragas helps Riven perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Gragas, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This change could signal that Gragas helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Gragas.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Gragas on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Gragas does a poor job of protecting Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no ideal synergy for Riven that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, overall, Gragas is a not very good ally for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, he drops their win rate by -1.6% to 48.5%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Riven and Gragas that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gragas has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Gragas allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Riven and Gragas together, you may not be giving your other allies enough magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Gragas ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 in order to pair well with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Riven and Gragas synergy build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Gragas than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Gragas with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Riven players should take 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 chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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