Riven with Yorick
How to Synergize Riven and Yorick
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Riven Yorick Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Riven with Yorick
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 Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Riven Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Riven in LoL
The Riven Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Yorick helps Riven perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is paired with Yorick, she gets a little drop in her full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Yorick does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Yorick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Yorick. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Yorick.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Yorick on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Yorick does a poor job of protecting Riven during team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, overall, Yorick is a very typical companion for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 49.4%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Riven and Yorick that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Yorick has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Yorick comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Riven players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Riven and Yorick together, you will not be granting your side much AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Riven in order to work well with Yorick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Riven and Yorick synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Yorick than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Yorick with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Yorick with Riven are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.