Riven with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Riven and Kai'Sa
based on 4,918 Riven with Kai'Sa pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Riven with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Riven Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Riven in LoL
The Riven Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kai'Sa helps Riven perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Kai'Sa, she gets a little decrease in her full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Kai'Sa does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Kai'Sa on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kai'Sa. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Kai'Sa on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Kai'Sa does a decent job of covering Riven during team fights.
Synergies between Riven and Kai'Sa
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Is Riven better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Riven that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. However, Kai'Sa is a very bad companion for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, she lowers their win rate by -4.0% to 46.1%. This signals that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Riven and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Kai'Sa allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Riven and Kai'Sa together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kai'Sa ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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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 work well with Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Riven and Kai'Sa synergy build include Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Kai'Sa than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 46.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Riven and Kai'Sa pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Kai'Sa with Riven are given for all ranked divisions. To scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.