Aphelios with Riven
How to Synergize Aphelios and Riven
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Aphelios Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Riven
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Riven
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Aphelios perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is paired with Riven, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Riven does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside 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.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Riven on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Aphelios in team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Riven
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top champion pairing for Aphelios that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Riven is a very typical teammate for Aphelios. By playing on the same side as Aphelios, she lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 48.4%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Aphelios and Riven that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when lining up Riven comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Aphelios and Riven together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
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 do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios in order to synergize with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Aphelios and Riven synergy build include Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Aphelios bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when playing alongside Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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