Riven with LeBlanc
How to Synergize Riven and LeBlanc
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and LeBlanc
Tips for Playing as Riven with LeBlanc
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 LeBlanc Will Play
Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
Riven LeBlanc Synergy Stats
How to Play with LeBlanc as Riven in LoL
The Riven LeBlanc synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with LeBlanc, 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 LeBlanc. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that LeBlanc helps Riven perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with LeBlanc, she observes a little decrease in her full damage output. This change could demonstrate that LeBlanc does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside LeBlanc on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside LeBlanc.
Additionally, when Riven plays with LeBlanc on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that LeBlanc does a decent job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside LeBlanc?
There is no top ally for Riven that will always be her #1 ally. However, overall, LeBlanc is a below average ally for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, she decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 49.0%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Riven and LeBlanc that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
LeBlanc has a greater difficulty than Riven. That means you must be very careful when arranging LeBlanc allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and LeBlanc together, you probably will not be providing your team enough utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your LeBlanc ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven in order to pair well with LeBlanc during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Riven and LeBlanc synergy build include Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with LeBlanc than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry LeBlanc with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing 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 rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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