Riven with Swain
How to Synergize Riven and Swain
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Riven Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Swain
Tips for Playing as Riven with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Riven Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Riven in LoL
The Riven Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Swain helps Riven perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven plays on the same team as Swain, she sees a small decrease in her total damage output. This difference could signal that Swain doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Swain. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Swain.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Swain on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Swain does a decent job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Riven that will always be her top teammate. However, Swain is a very typical teammate for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 50.5%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Riven and Swain that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when finding Swain allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Riven players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Riven and Swain together, you will not be granting your other allies enough crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Swain ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 synergize with Swain during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Riven and Swain synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Swain than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 50.5% helping carry Swain with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing 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 rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
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