Ryze with Riven
How to Synergize Ryze and Riven
based on 944 Ryze with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ryze Riven Synergy Summary
Best Ryze vs Riven Counter Build
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Core Ryze Items
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Guide to Synergizing Ryze and Riven
Tips for Playing as Ryze with Riven
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Ryze in LoL
The Ryze 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, Ryze sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Ryze perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ryze is paired with Riven, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Riven helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Ryze is played together with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Ryze plays with Riven on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Ryze in teamfights.
Synergies between Ryze and Riven
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Is Ryze better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top champion pairing for Ryze that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Riven is a pretty good teammate for Ryze. By being on the same side as Ryze, she improves their win rate by 1.5% to 50.5%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Ryze and Riven that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Ryze. That means Ryze players should be cautious when arranging Riven allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Ryze and Riven together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough tankyness. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ryze in order to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Ryze and Riven synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Luden's Companion, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other common builds. In fact, Ryze had an average winrate of 50.5% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Ryze players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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