Riven with Zeri
How to Synergize Riven and Zeri
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Riven Zeri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Zeri
Tips for Playing as Riven with Zeri
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.
Riven Zeri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zeri as Riven in LoL
The Riven Zeri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zeri, 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 Zeri. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zeri helps Riven perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven plays on the same team as Zeri, she observes a little drop in her full damage output. This could indicate that Zeri does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Zeri on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zeri.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Zeri on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zeri does a poor job of protecting Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Zeri?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Riven that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Zeri is a very bad teammate for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, they drops their win rate by -5.2% to 44.9%. This shows that there is a very bad bond between Riven and Zeri that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zeri has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when arranging Zeri comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Riven and Zeri together, you may not be providing your team much magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Zeri ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven to work well with Zeri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Riven and Zeri synergy build include Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Zeri than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven had an average win rate of 44.9% helping carry Zeri with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing 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 combinations that we analyzed for Riven and Zeri pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.9% winrate overall.
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