Vi with Riven
How to Synergize Vi and Riven
based on 3,079 Vi with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vi Riven Synergy Summary
Best Vi vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vi and Riven
Tips for Playing as Vi with Riven
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Vi in LoL
The Vi 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, Vi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Riven helps Vi perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vi plays on the same team as Riven, she gets a small decrease in her full damage output. This could indicate that Riven does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vi is played together with Riven on the same team, 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 alongside Riven.
Moreover, when Vi plays with Riven on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Vi in teamfights.
Synergies between Vi and Riven
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Is Vi better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal ally for Vi that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, Riven is a very typical ally for Vi. By locking into the same team as Vi, she decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 51.3%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Vi and Riven that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Vi. That means Vi players should be cautious when finding Riven comrades to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Vi and Riven together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Vi to pair well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Vi and Riven synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Experimental Hexplate, and Sundered Sky. When Vi used at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vi boasted an average winrate of 51.3% helping carry Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
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