Riven with Varus
How to Synergize Riven and Varus
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Riven Varus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Varus
Tips for Playing as Riven with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Riven Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Riven in LoL
The Riven Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Varus helps Riven perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven plays on the same team as Varus, she sees a little increase in her full damage dealt. This may signal that Varus provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Varus.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Varus on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Varus does a poor job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Varus?
There is no ideal companion for Riven that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Varus is a very typical companion for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 49.2%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Riven and Varus that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Varus allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Varus together, you will not be granting your team much AP. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Varus ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To truly master Riven to synergize with Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Riven and Varus synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven used at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Varus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 49.2% when playing alongside Varus with this build.
To have the highest chance 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. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Riven and Varus pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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