Riven with Jax
How to Synergize Riven and Jax
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Riven Jax Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Jax
Tips for Playing as Riven with Jax
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 Jax Will Play
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
Riven Jax Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jax as Riven in LoL
The Riven Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, 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 Jax. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Jax helps Riven perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is paired with Jax, she observes a small decrease in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Jax doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Jax 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 alongside Jax.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Jax on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Jax does a poor job of covering Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Jax?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. However, Jax is a pretty good teammate for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 51.3%. This signals that there is a good bond between Riven and Jax that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Jax has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when arranging Jax comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and Jax together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Jax ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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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 Jax during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Riven and Jax synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Jax than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 51.3% when playing alongside Jax with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.3% winrate overall.
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