Riven with Vi
How to Synergize Riven and Vi
based on 3,079 Riven with Vi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Riven Vi Synergy Summary
Best Riven vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Vi
Tips for Playing as Riven with Vi
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 Vi Will Play
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
Riven Vi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vi as Riven in LoL
The Riven Vi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vi, 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 Vi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vi helps Riven perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is an ally to Vi, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Vi helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Vi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Vi.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Vi on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Vi does a poor job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Vi?
There is no one best ally for Riven that will always be her ideal ally. Yet, Vi is a decent teammate for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, she raises their win rate by 1.2% to 51.3%. This signals that there is a good bond between Riven and Vi that results in them performing better together than alone.
Vi has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Vi allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Riven players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Vi together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Vi ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Riven and Vi synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Vi than with most other typical builds. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 51.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Vi with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
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