Riven with Master Yi
How to Synergize Riven and Master Yi
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Riven Master Yi Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Master Yi
Tips for Playing as Riven with Master Yi
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 Master Yi Will Play
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
Riven Master Yi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Master Yi as Riven in LoL
The Riven Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 Master Yi. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Master Yi helps Riven perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is an ally to Master Yi, she observes a moderate decrease in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Master Yi does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Master Yi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Master Yi. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Master Yi.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Master Yi on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Master Yi does a decent job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Master Yi?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Riven that will always be her top synergy. However, overall, Master Yi is a below average teammate for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 49.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Riven and Master Yi that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Master Yi has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Master Yi teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and Master Yi together, you probably will not be providing your team very much AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Master Yi ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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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 Master Yi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Riven and Master Yi synergy build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Master Yi than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when playing alongside Master Yi with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
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