Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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.
The Udyr 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, Udyr sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Udyr perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Udyr tries to synergize with Riven, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Riven does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Udyr is played together with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Udyr plays with Riven on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Riven does a poor job of covering Udyr in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Udyr that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Riven is a pretty good ally for Udyr. By being on the same team as Udyr, she improves their win rate by 2.9% to 52.7%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Udyr and Riven that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Udyr. That means you should be very careful when lining up Riven allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe 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 Udyr and Riven together, you may not be giving your side much magic damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Udyr in order to pair well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Udyr and Riven synergy build include Riftmaker, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Udyr incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Udyr had an average win rate of 52.7% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Riven with Udyr are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.