Riven with Janna
How to Synergize Riven and Janna
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Riven Janna Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Janna
Tips for Playing as Riven with Janna
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 Janna Will Play
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
Riven Janna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Janna as Riven in LoL
The Riven Janna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Janna, 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 Janna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Janna helps Riven perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Janna, she observes a small increase in her full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Janna supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Janna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Janna.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Janna on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Janna does a decent job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Janna?
There is no ideal companion for Riven that will always be her best ally. Yet, overall, Janna is a good ally for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, she raises their win rate by 2.3% to 52.4%. This signals that there is pretty good synergy between Riven and Janna that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Janna has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when finding Janna allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Riven players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Together, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Janna together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Janna ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to work well with Janna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Riven and Janna synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Janna than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 52.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Janna with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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