Riven with Irelia
How to Synergize Riven and Irelia
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Riven Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Riven with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Riven Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Riven in LoL
The Riven Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Irelia helps Riven perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is an ally to Irelia, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Irelia does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Irelia.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Irelia on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, Irelia is a decent teammate for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, she increases their win rate by 2.9% to 53.0%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Riven and Irelia that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Irelia has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when arranging Irelia allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Riven and Irelia together, you may not be giving your team enough AP. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Irelia ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to work well with Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Riven and Irelia synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Irelia than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 53.0% when playing alongside Irelia with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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