Shyvana with Riven
How to Synergize Shyvana and Riven
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Shyvana Riven Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Riven
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Riven
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shyvana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Shyvana perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana plays on the same team as Riven, she gets a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Riven does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played alongside Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Riven on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Shyvana in teamfights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Riven
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Shyvana that will no matter what be her best ally. However, Riven is a very typical ally for Shyvana. By locking into the same side as Shyvana, she drops their win rate by -0.1% to 49.0%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Shyvana and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Shyvana. That means Shyvana players must be cautious when finding Riven allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Shyvana and Riven together, you will not be providing your side a lot of magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shyvana to work well with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Shyvana and Riven synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Riven than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shyvana had an average winrate of 49.0% helping carry Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Shyvana players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
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