Annie with Riven
How to Synergize Annie and Riven
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Annie Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Riven
Tips for Playing as Annie with Riven
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Riven helps Annie perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie is paired with Riven, she sees a small decrease in her complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Riven does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Annie plays with Riven on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Annie in teamfights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top synergy for Annie that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Riven is a very typical companion for Annie. By locking into the same team as Annie, she drops their win rate by -1.0% to 48.3%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Annie and Riven that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means you need to be very careful when finding Riven allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Annie players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Annie and Riven together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of protection for burst damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 truly master Annie to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Annie and Riven synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Annie used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other typical builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 48.3% helping carry Riven with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Annie and Riven pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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