Riven with Kindred
How to Synergize Riven and Kindred
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Riven Kindred Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Riven with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Riven Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Riven in LoL
The Riven Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kindred helps Riven perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Kindred, she observes a little decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Kindred does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that their support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Kindred 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 synergisticly with Kindred.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Kindred on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Kindred does a decent job of covering Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no perfect synergy for Riven that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. Yet, Kindred is a very typical teammate for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, they improves their win rate by 0.4% to 50.5%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Riven and Kindred that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Kindred has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when finding Kindred allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Riven and Kindred together, you may not be granting your side much magic damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Kindred ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 truly master Riven to synergize with Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Riven and Kindred synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Kindred than with many other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Kindred with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Riven and Kindred pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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