Riven with Zyra
How to Synergize Riven and Zyra
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Riven Zyra Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Zyra
Tips for Playing as Riven with Zyra
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 Zyra Will Play
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
Riven Zyra Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zyra as Riven in LoL
The Riven Zyra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zyra, 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 Zyra. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zyra helps Riven perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Riven tries to synergize with Zyra, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This change could indicate that Zyra provides cover for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played with Zyra on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zyra.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Zyra on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Zyra does a poor job of covering Riven during team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Zyra?
There is no ideal synergy for Riven that will always be her top teammate. Yet, Zyra is a pretty good teammate for Riven. By being on the same side as Riven, she improves their win rate by 2.8% to 52.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a good strategic relationship between Riven and Zyra that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Zyra has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means Riven players don't need to be careful when finding Zyra allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Zyra together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough engage potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Zyra ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Riven to pair well with Zyra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Riven and Zyra synergy build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Death's Dance, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Zyra than with many other common item sets. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 52.9% when playing alongside Zyra with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you 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 players chose for Riven and Zyra pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
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