Riven with Xayah
How to Synergize Riven and Xayah
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Riven Xayah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Riven with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Riven Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Riven in LoL
The Riven Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xayah helps Riven perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Xayah, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Xayah helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Xayah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Xayah. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xayah.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Xayah on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Xayah does a poor job of protecting Riven during team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no one best synergy for Riven that will always be her top synergy. Yet, Xayah is a very typical ally for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, she lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 49.6%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Riven and Xayah that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Xayah has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Xayah allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Riven players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Riven and Xayah together, you will not be granting your side enough AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Xayah ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven in order to work well with Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Riven and Xayah synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Riven included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Xayah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Xayah with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Riven players 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 combinations that we analyzed for Riven and Xayah pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Xayah with Riven are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.