Riven with Thresh
How to Synergize Riven and Thresh
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Riven Thresh Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Riven with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Riven Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Riven in LoL
The Riven Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Thresh helps Riven perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is an ally to Thresh, she observes a little drop in her complete damage output. This may signal that Thresh does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Thresh on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Thresh.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Thresh on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Thresh does a decent job of protecting Riven in team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no one best synergy for Riven that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Thresh is a very typical ally for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 50.5%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Riven and Thresh that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Thresh has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Thresh teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Riven players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Riven and Thresh together, you probably will not be giving your team enough magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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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 Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Riven and Thresh synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Thresh than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Thresh with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Riven players 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 builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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