Sylas with Riven
How to Synergize Sylas and Riven
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Sylas Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Sylas and Riven
Tips for Playing as Sylas with Riven
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Sylas in LoL
The Sylas 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, Sylas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Riven helps Sylas perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Sylas is an ally to Riven, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Riven provides cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Sylas is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Moreover, when Sylas plays with Riven on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Sylas during team fights.
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Is Sylas better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best ally for Sylas that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Riven is a very typical ally for Sylas. By locking into the same side as Sylas, she drops their win rate by -0.7% to 48.3%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Sylas and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Sylas. That means Sylas players must be cautious when lining up Riven teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Sylas and Riven together, you may not be granting your side very much support. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Sylas in order to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Sylas and Riven synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 48.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Sylas players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Sylas and Riven pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Riven with Sylas are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.