Riven with Karma
How to Synergize Riven and Karma
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Riven Karma Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Karma
Tips for Playing as Riven with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Riven Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Riven in LoL
The Riven Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 Karma. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Karma helps Riven perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Karma, she observes a little increase in her total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Karma helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Karma on the same side, 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 Karma.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Karma on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Karma does a poor job of protecting Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Karma?
There is no perfect synergy for Riven that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Karma is a very typical teammate for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, she has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 50.1%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Riven and Karma that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Karma has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Karma comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Karma together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Karma ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to pair well with Karma during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Riven and Karma synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Karma than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 50.1% helping carry Karma with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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