Riven with Wukong
How to Synergize Riven and Wukong
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Riven Wukong Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Riven with Wukong
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 Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Riven Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Riven in LoL
The Riven Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, 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 Wukong. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Wukong 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 Wukong, she gets a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Wukong does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Wukong 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 with Wukong.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Wukong on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Wukong does a decent job of covering Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no ideal companion for Riven that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, overall, Wukong is a decent ally for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 51.7%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Riven and Wukong that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Wukong has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Wukong comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Riven players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Riven and Wukong together, you may not be providing your other allies much magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Wukong ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 to work well with Wukong during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Riven and Wukong synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Wukong than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 51.7% when playing alongside Wukong with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Riven and Wukong pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.7% winrate overall.
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