Rumble with Riven
How to Synergize Rumble and Riven
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Rumble Riven Synergy Summary
Best Rumble vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rumble and Riven
Tips for Playing as Rumble with Riven
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
Advice to Understand How Riven Will Play
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.
Rumble Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Rumble in LoL
The Rumble Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rumble sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Riven helps Rumble perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Rumble is an ally to Riven, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This may indicate that Riven does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played together with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Rumble plays with Riven on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Riven does a poor job of covering Rumble in team fights.
Synergies between Rumble and Riven
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Is Rumble better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Rumble that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Riven is a very typical ally for Rumble. By playing on the same team as Rumble, she has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.3%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Rumble and Riven that results in them performing at the same level together than without each other.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Rumble. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Riven allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Rumble players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Rumble and Riven together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Rumble in order to synergize with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Rumble and Riven synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Riven than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Rumble boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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