Blitzcrank with Riven
How to Synergize Blitzcrank and Riven
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Blitzcrank Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Blitzcrank and Riven
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank with Riven
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
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.
Blitzcrank Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Blitzcrank in LoL
The Blitzcrank 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, Blitzcrank sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Blitzcrank perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Blitzcrank is an ally to Riven, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Riven does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Blitzcrank is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Blitzcrank plays with Riven on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Blitzcrank in teamfights.
Synergies between Blitzcrank and Riven
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Is Blitzcrank better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal synergy for Blitzcrank that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Riven is a very typical companion for Blitzcrank. By locking into the same team as Blitzcrank, she lowers their win rate by -0.4% to 51.2%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Blitzcrank and Riven that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Blitzcrank. That means Blitzcrank players must be careful when arranging Riven comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Blitzcrank and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your side enough magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Blitzcrank to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Blitzcrank and Riven synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Blitzcrank included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Riven than with many other common item sets. In fact, Blitzcrank boasted an average win rate of 51.2% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.
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