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.
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
The Riven Kha'Zix synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kha'Zix, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kha'Zix. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kha'Zix helps Riven perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven plays on the same team as Kha'Zix, she observes a little drop in her complete damage output. This could indicate that Kha'Zix doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Kha'Zix on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kha'Zix. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Kha'Zix.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Kha'Zix on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Kha'Zix does a decent job of protecting Riven during team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Riven that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Kha'Zix is a very typical ally for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 49.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Riven and Kha'Zix that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kha'Zix has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when arranging Kha'Zix teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Riven players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Riven and Kha'Zix together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kha'Zix ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to synergize with Kha'Zix during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Riven and Kha'Zix synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Kha'Zix than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 49.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kha'Zix with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Kha'Zix with Riven are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.