Riven with Zilean
How to Synergize Riven and Zilean
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Riven Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Riven with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Riven Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Riven in LoL
The Riven Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zilean helps Riven perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Zilean, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Zilean helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Zilean on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zilean.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Zilean on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Riven in teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no top ally for Riven that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, Zilean is a decent teammate for Riven. By locking into the same team as Riven, he increases their win rate by 1.5% to 51.6%. This shows that there is a good synergy between Riven and Zilean that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Zilean teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Riven and Zilean together, you may not be giving your other teammates much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Riven to work well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Riven and Zilean synergy build include Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Zilean than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Riven had an average winrate of 51.6% helping carry Zilean with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood 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. Of all the runes players used for Riven and Zilean pairings, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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