Riven with Pyke
How to Synergize Riven and Pyke
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Riven Pyke Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Riven with Pyke
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 Pyke Will Play
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
Riven Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Riven in LoL
The Riven Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, 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 Pyke. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Pyke helps Riven perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is an ally to Pyke, she gets a little decrease in her total damage output. This may signal that Pyke doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Pyke on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Pyke. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Pyke.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Pyke on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Pyke does a decent job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no one best champion pairing for Riven that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Pyke is a below average companion for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 48.7%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Riven and Pyke that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Pyke has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when lining up Pyke comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Riven and Pyke together, you may not be providing your side much magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 truly master Riven to work well with Pyke during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Riven and Pyke synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Pyke than with many other typical builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 48.7% helping carry Pyke with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Riven and Pyke pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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