Riven with Ziggs
How to Synergize Riven and Ziggs
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Riven Ziggs Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Riven with Ziggs
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 Ziggs Will Play
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
Riven Ziggs Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ziggs as Riven in LoL
The Riven Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ziggs helps Riven perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven is paired with Ziggs, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This could signal that Ziggs supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Ziggs on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Ziggs. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Ziggs.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Ziggs on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Ziggs does a poor job of protecting Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Ziggs?
There is no one best champion pairing for Riven that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Ziggs is a very typical companion for Riven. By locking into the same side as Riven, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 50.5%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Riven and Ziggs that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Ziggs has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Ziggs allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Riven players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Ziggs together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of crowd control. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Ziggs ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Riven and Ziggs synergy build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Ziggs than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when playing alongside Ziggs with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Riven players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Ziggs with Riven are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.