Riven with Kalista
How to Synergize Riven and Kalista
based on 1,105 Riven with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Kalista Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Riven with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Riven Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Riven in LoL
The Riven Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kalista helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is paired with Kalista, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This could signal that Kalista doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Kalista on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Kalista. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Kalista.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Kalista on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Kalista does a decent job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Riven that will no matter what be her ideal ally. However, Kalista is a very typical companion for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, she increases their win rate by 0.1% to 50.2%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Riven and Kalista that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Kalista has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Kalista comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Kalista together, you will not be giving your other teammates much AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Kalista ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 truly master Riven to pair well with Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Riven and Kalista synergy build include Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Kalista than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 50.2% helping carry Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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