Riven with Lux
How to Synergize Riven and Lux
based on 10,876 Riven with Lux pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Lux Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Lux
Tips for Playing as Riven with Lux
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 Lux Will Play
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Riven Lux Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lux as Riven in LoL
The Riven Lux synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lux, 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 Lux. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lux helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Lux, she observes a little increase in her full damage output. This difference could signal that Lux provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Lux 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 Lux.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Lux on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Lux does a poor job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Lux?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, Lux is a very typical companion for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, she lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 49.6%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Riven and Lux that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Lux has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Lux teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Lux together, you will not be providing your side a great deal of engage potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Lux ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to work well with Lux during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Riven and Lux synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Eclipse, and Profane Hydra. When Riven used at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Lux than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 49.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Lux with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Ingenious Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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