Bard with Riven
How to Synergize Bard and Riven
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Bard Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Riven
Tips for Playing as Bard with Riven
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard 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 negative change shows that Riven helps Bard perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is an ally to Riven, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Riven supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Riven on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Bard that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Riven is a very typical companion for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, she improves their win rate by 0.7% to 53.0%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Bard and Riven that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be very careful when lining up Riven allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Bard and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much AP. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to work well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Bard and Riven synergy build include Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Bard included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when playing alongside Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Bard players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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