Riven with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Riven and Tahm Kench
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Riven Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Riven with Tahm Kench
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 Tahm Kench Will Play
Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.
Riven Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Riven in LoL
The Riven Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, 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 Tahm Kench. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tahm Kench helps Riven perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Tahm Kench supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Tahm Kench on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Tahm Kench does a poor job of covering Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, overall, Tahm Kench is a very typical companion for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, he improves their win rate by 0.6% to 50.7%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Riven and Tahm Kench that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Tahm Kench has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Tahm Kench allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Riven and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Tahm Kench ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Riven and Tahm Kench synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Tahm Kench with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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