Xerath with Riven
How to Synergize Xerath and Riven
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Xerath Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Riven
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Riven
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath 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, Xerath sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Riven helps Xerath perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xerath is paired with Riven, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Riven does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played alongside Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Xerath plays with Riven on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Xerath in teamfights.
Synergies between Xerath and Riven
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect companion for Xerath that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, Riven is a pretty good ally for Xerath. By locking into the same side as Xerath, she increases their win rate by 1.1% to 51.7%. This shows that there is a good strategic relationship between Xerath and Riven that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Xerath. That means Xerath players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Riven teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Xerath players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Xerath and Riven together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of protection for burst damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Xerath to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Xerath and Riven synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 51.7% when playing alongside Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Xerath players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.7% winrate overall.
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