Riven with Xerath
How to Synergize Riven and Xerath
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Riven Xerath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Riven with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Riven Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Riven in LoL
The Riven Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xerath helps Riven perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven tries to synergize with Xerath, she sees a small increase in her full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Xerath supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played alongside Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Xerath. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xerath.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Xerath on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no top ally for Riven that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, overall, Xerath is a pretty good ally for Riven. By being on the same team as Riven, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 51.7%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Riven and Xerath that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Xerath has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Xerath teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Riven players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Riven and Xerath together, you will not be granting your side very much cover. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Xerath ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 work well with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Riven and Xerath synergy build include Ravenous Hydra, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven combined at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Xerath than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 51.7% helping carry Xerath with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing 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 runes players used for Riven and Xerath pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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