Garen with Riven
How to Synergize Garen and Riven
based on 616 Garen with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Riven Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Riven
Tips for Playing as Garen with Riven
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen 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 negative change shows that Riven helps Garen perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen plays on the same team as Riven, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Riven does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Riven on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Riven on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Riven does a poor job of covering Garen in teamfights.
Synergies between Garen and Riven
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Is Garen better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best companion for Garen that will always be his best ally. Yet, overall, Riven is a relatively poor companion for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, she drops their win rate by -2.4% to 46.3%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Garen and Riven that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means you must be cautious when arranging Riven teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Garen and Riven together, you will not be giving your other allies enough magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up 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 by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Garen and Riven synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Riven than with most other typical builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 46.3% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Garen players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Garen and Riven pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.3% win rate overall.
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