Yorick with Riven
How to Synergize Yorick and Riven
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Yorick Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yorick and Riven
Tips for Playing as Yorick with Riven
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
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.
Yorick Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Yorick in LoL
The Yorick 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, Yorick 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 decrease shows that Riven helps Yorick perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Yorick tries to synergize with Riven, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Riven does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Yorick 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 alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Yorick plays with Riven on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Yorick in team fights.
Synergies between Yorick and Riven
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Is Yorick better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal companion for Yorick that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Riven is a very typical teammate for Yorick. By locking into the same side as Yorick, she lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 49.4%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Yorick and Riven that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Yorick. That means you must be very careful when arranging Riven teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Yorick and Riven together, you may not be granting your other allies much AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Yorick to synergize with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Yorick and Riven synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Yorick included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other typical builds. In fact, Yorick boasted an average winrate of 49.4% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Yorick and Riven pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.4% winrate overall.
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