Riven with Leona
How to Synergize Riven and Leona
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Riven Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Leona
Tips for Playing as Riven with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Riven Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Riven in LoL
The Riven Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Leona helps Riven perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is an ally to Leona, she observes a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Leona provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Leona.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Leona on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Leona does a decent job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Leona?
There is no one best champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Leona is a good ally for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, she improves their win rate by 1.0% to 51.1%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Riven and Leona that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be very careful when lining up Leona comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Riven and Leona together, you may not be providing your team enough magic damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Leona ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to work well with Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Riven and Leona synergy build include Black Cleaver, Maw of Malmortius, and Spear of Shojin. When Riven bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Leona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 51.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Leona with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Riven and Leona pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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