Braum with Riven
How to Synergize Braum and Riven
based on 1,461 Braum with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Braum Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Braum and Riven
Tips for Playing as Braum with Riven
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
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.
Braum Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Braum in LoL
The Braum 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, Braum 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 Braum perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Braum is paired with Riven, he observes a little drop in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Riven doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Braum is played together with Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Braum plays with Riven on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Braum during team fights.
Synergies between Braum and Riven
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Is Braum better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Braum that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Riven is a very typical companion for Braum. By playing on the same team as Braum, she drops their win rate by -0.3% to 51.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Braum and Riven that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Braum. That means Braum players must be careful when finding Riven teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by grouping Braum and Riven together, you may not be granting your other allies very much magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Braum to work well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Braum and Riven synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Braum included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Riven than with many other common builds. In fact, Braum had an average win rate of 51.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Braum players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
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