Riven with Veigar
How to Synergize Riven and Veigar
based on 3,548 Riven with Veigar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Veigar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Veigar
Tips for Playing as Riven with Veigar
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 Veigar Will Play
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
Riven Veigar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Veigar as Riven in LoL
The Riven Veigar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Veigar, 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 Veigar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Veigar helps Riven perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is an ally to Veigar, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Veigar helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Veigar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Veigar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Veigar.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Veigar on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Veigar does a poor job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Veigar?
There is no top ally for Riven that will 100% of the time be her best ally. Yet, overall, Veigar is a very typical companion for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 49.5%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Riven and Veigar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Veigar has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Veigar allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Riven players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and Veigar together, you may not be providing your other allies very much cover. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Veigar ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 to pair well with Veigar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Riven and Veigar synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Veigar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 49.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Veigar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Riven and Veigar pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
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