Riven with Lissandra
How to Synergize Riven and Lissandra
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Riven Lissandra Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Riven with Lissandra
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 Lissandra Will Play
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
Riven Lissandra Synergy Stats
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The Riven Lissandra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lissandra, 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 Lissandra. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lissandra helps Riven perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is an ally to Lissandra, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Lissandra supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Lissandra on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Lissandra.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Lissandra on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Lissandra does a poor job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Lissandra?
There is no one best companion for Riven that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, Lissandra is a very typical teammate for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, she raises their win rate by 0.6% to 50.7%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Riven and Lissandra that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Lissandra has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when lining up Lissandra comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Riven players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Riven and Lissandra together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Lissandra teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven in order to pair well with Lissandra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Riven and Lissandra synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Lissandra than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 50.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Lissandra with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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