Riven with Rengar
How to Synergize Riven and Rengar
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Riven Rengar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Rengar
Tips for Playing as Riven with Rengar
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 Rengar Will Play
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
Riven Rengar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rengar as Riven in LoL
The Riven Rengar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rengar, 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 Rengar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rengar helps Riven perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven plays on the same team as Rengar, she sees a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This may indicate that Rengar doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Rengar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Rengar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Rengar.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Rengar on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Rengar does a decent job of protecting Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Rengar?
There is no ideal synergy for Riven that will always be her best ally. However, overall, Rengar is a very typical teammate for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 49.2%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Riven and Rengar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Rengar has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Rengar teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Riven players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Riven and Rengar together, you may not be granting your team a lot of magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Rengar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to synergize with Rengar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Riven and Rengar synergy build include Black Cleaver, Ravenous Hydra, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Rengar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 49.2% helping carry Rengar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Riven players should use 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 used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Rengar with Riven are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.