Brand with Riven
How to Synergize Brand and Riven
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Brand Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Riven
Tips for Playing as Brand with Riven
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand 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 drop shows that Riven helps Brand perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand is paired with Riven, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Riven does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played alongside Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Riven on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Riven does a poor job of covering Brand during teamfights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top ally for Brand that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Riven is a very typical ally for Brand. By locking into the same team as Brand, she increases their win rate by 0.7% to 52.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Brand and Riven that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Brand. That means you must be very careful when finding Riven comrades to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Brand and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of engage potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Brand to synergize with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Brand and Riven synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Riven than with most other common builds. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 52.1% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
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