Riven with Jarvan IV
How to Synergize Riven and Jarvan IV
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Riven Jarvan IV Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Riven with Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV Will Play
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
Riven Jarvan IV Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jarvan IV as Riven in LoL
The Riven Jarvan IV synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jarvan IV, 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 Jarvan IV. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Jarvan IV helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Jarvan IV, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Jarvan IV helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Jarvan IV 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 Jarvan IV.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Jarvan IV on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Jarvan IV does a decent job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Jarvan IV?
There is no ideal synergy for Riven that will no matter what be her top teammate. However, Jarvan IV is a not very good ally for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 48.4%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Riven and Jarvan IV that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Jarvan IV has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Jarvan IV teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Riven players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and Jarvan IV together, you will not be providing your side a lot of AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Jarvan IV ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to synergize with Jarvan IV during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Riven and Jarvan IV synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Riven included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Jarvan IV than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 48.4% when playing alongside Jarvan IV with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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