Riven with Taliyah
How to Synergize Riven and Taliyah
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Riven Taliyah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Riven with Taliyah
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 Taliyah Will Play
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Riven Taliyah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taliyah as Riven in LoL
The Riven Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Taliyah helps Riven perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is paired with Taliyah, she sees a little decrease in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Taliyah does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Taliyah on the same team, 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 Taliyah.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Taliyah on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Taliyah does a decent job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Taliyah?
There is no perfect ally for Riven that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, Taliyah is a very typical companion for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, she decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 49.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Riven and Taliyah that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Taliyah has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be cautious when lining up Taliyah comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Riven players should expect to witness 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.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and Taliyah together, you may not be granting your team very much sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Taliyah ally's skill level, you should 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to work well with Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Riven and Taliyah synergy build consist of Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Taliyah than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when playing alongside Taliyah with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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