Riven with Shen
How to Synergize Riven and Shen
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Riven Shen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Shen
Tips for Playing as Riven with Shen
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 Shen Will Play
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
Riven Shen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shen as Riven in LoL
The Riven Shen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shen, 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 Shen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shen helps Riven perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven plays on the same team as Shen, she observes a small increase in her total damage output. This change could signal that Shen provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Shen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Shen.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Shen on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Shen does a poor job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Shen?
There is no one best companion for Riven that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, Shen is a very typical companion for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 50.3%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Riven and Shen that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Shen has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Shen allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, Riven players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Riven and Shen together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Shen teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven to work well with Shen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Riven and Shen synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Shen than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 50.3% helping carry Shen with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Riven and Shen pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.3% win rate overall.
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