Riven with Neeko
How to Synergize Riven and Neeko
based on 3,208 Riven with Neeko pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Neeko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Neeko
Tips for Playing as Riven with Neeko
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 Neeko Will Play
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
Riven Neeko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Neeko as Riven in LoL
The Riven Neeko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Neeko, 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 Neeko. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Neeko helps Riven perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Neeko, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This difference could signal that Neeko helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Neeko on the same team, 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 alongside Neeko.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Neeko on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Neeko does a poor job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Neeko?
There is no one best companion for Riven that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, Neeko is a below average ally for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, she drops their win rate by -1.5% to 48.6%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Riven and Neeko that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Neeko has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when lining up Neeko comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Riven players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and Neeko together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of engage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Neeko ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 Neeko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Riven and Neeko synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Neeko than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Neeko with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Riven and Neeko pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Neeko with Riven are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.