Gangplank with Riven
How to Synergize Gangplank and Riven
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Gangplank Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Riven
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Riven
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
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.
Gangplank Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank 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, Gangplank sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Riven helps Gangplank perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank plays on the same team as Riven, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Riven supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Gangplank plays with Riven on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Gangplank in team fights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Riven
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal synergy for Gangplank that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Riven is a very typical teammate for Gangplank. By playing on the same team as Gangplank, she has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 48.6%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Gangplank and Riven that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Gangplank. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Riven comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Gangplank players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Gangplank and Riven together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gangplank to pair well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Gangplank and Riven synergy build include Essence Reaver, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Riven than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gangplank had an average win rate of 48.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Gangplank players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Gangplank and Riven pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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