Akali with Riven
How to Synergize Akali and Riven
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Akali Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Riven
Tips for Playing as Akali with Riven
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Akali in LoL
The Akali 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, Akali sees a very large drop in her 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 Akali perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is an ally to Riven, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This change could indicate that Riven does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Riven on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Akali during team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal ally for Akali that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, overall, Riven is a not very good ally for Akali. By locking into the same team as Akali, she lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 47.8%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Akali and Riven that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players should be very careful when lining up Riven allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Akali and Riven together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to pair well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Akali and Riven synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Akali bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Riven than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 47.8% when playing alongside Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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