Yasuo with Riven
How to Synergize Yasuo and Riven
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Yasuo Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yasuo and Riven
Tips for Playing as Yasuo with Riven
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Yasuo in LoL
The Yasuo 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, Yasuo sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Yasuo perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Yasuo is paired with Riven, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Riven does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Yasuo is played alongside Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Yasuo plays with Riven on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Yasuo during teamfights.
Synergies between Yasuo and Riven
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Is Yasuo better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Yasuo that will no matter what be his best ally. However, overall, Riven is a relatively poor companion for Yasuo. By playing on the same team as Yasuo, she decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 49.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Yasuo and Riven that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Yasuo. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Riven allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Yasuo players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Yasuo and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your team enough magic damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Yasuo to pair well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Yasuo and Riven synergy build include Wit's End, Kraken Slayer, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Riven than with many other common item sets. In fact, Yasuo had an average win rate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Yasuo and Riven pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Riven with Yasuo are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.