Zac with Riven
How to Synergize Zac and Riven
based on 2,517 Zac with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zac Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zac and Riven
Tips for Playing as Zac with Riven
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Zac in LoL
The Zac 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, Zac sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Riven helps Zac perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zac tries to synergize with Riven, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Riven does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zac is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Zac plays with Riven on the same side, he typically 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 protecting Zac during teamfights.
Synergies between Zac and Riven
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Is Zac better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top champion pairing for Zac that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Riven is a decent companion for Zac. By locking into the same side as Zac, she improves their win rate by 1.1% to 52.9%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Zac and Riven that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Zac. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Riven teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Zac and Riven together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 truly master Zac in order to pair well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Zac and Riven synergy build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Randuin's Omen. When Zac included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zac had an average win rate of 52.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Zac players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Riven with Zac are presented for every ranked division. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.