Skarner with Riven
How to Synergize Skarner and Riven
based on 314 Skarner with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Skarner Riven Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Riven
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Riven
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner 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, Skarner sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner tries to synergize with Riven, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Riven does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Moreover, when Skarner plays with Riven on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Skarner during team fights.
Synergies between Skarner and Riven
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best companion for Skarner that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Riven is a good companion for Skarner. By locking into the same side as Skarner, she improves their win rate by 2.0% to 50.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Skarner and Riven that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players must be cautious when lining up Riven comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Skarner and Riven together, you will not be giving your other teammates much AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Skarner in order to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Skarner and Riven synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other common item sets. In fact, Skarner boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Skarner and Riven pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Riven with Skarner are given for all ranked divisions. To scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.