Alistar with Riven
How to Synergize Alistar and Riven
based on 2,068 Alistar with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Riven Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Riven
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Riven
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar 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 drop shows that Riven helps Alistar perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Riven, he observes a little decrease in his full damage output. This may indicate that Riven does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Riven on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Alistar in team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Riven
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Alistar that will always be his ideal ally. However, Riven is a very typical companion for Alistar. By playing on the same side as Alistar, she increases their win rate by 0.4% to 49.8%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Alistar and Riven that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players should be very careful when arranging Riven allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Alistar and Riven together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to synergize with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Alistar and Riven synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Riven than with most other typical builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 49.8% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.8% win rate overall.
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