Dr. Mundo with Riven
How to Synergize Dr. Mundo and Riven
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Dr. Mundo Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Dr. Mundo and Riven
Tips for Playing as Dr. Mundo with Riven
Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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.
Dr. Mundo Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Dr. Mundo in LoL
The Dr. Mundo 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, Dr. Mundo sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Dr. Mundo perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Dr. Mundo is paired with Riven, he sees a noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Riven does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Dr. Mundo is played alongside Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Dr. Mundo plays with Riven on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Dr. Mundo during teamfights.
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Is Dr. Mundo better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Dr. Mundo that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Riven is a very typical teammate for Dr. Mundo. By playing on the same team as Dr. Mundo, she drops their win rate by -0.4% to 50.7%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Dr. Mundo and Riven that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Dr. Mundo. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Riven allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Dr. Mundo and Riven together, you will not be giving your team a lot of magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Dr. Mundo to synergize with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Dr. Mundo and Riven synergy build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Dr. Mundo bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Dr. Mundo had an average win rate of 50.7% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Dr. Mundo players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
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