Hecarim with Riven
How to Synergize Hecarim and Riven
based on 2,936 Hecarim with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Hecarim Riven Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Riven
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Riven
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim 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, Hecarim sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Riven helps Hecarim perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hecarim tries to synergize with Riven, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Riven does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played together with Riven on the same team, 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 synergisticly with Riven.
Additionally, when Hecarim plays with Riven on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Hecarim in teamfights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Riven
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Hecarim that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Riven is a very typical teammate for Hecarim. By playing on the same side as Hecarim, she improves their win rate by 0.8% to 49.3%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Hecarim and Riven that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Hecarim. That means you should be cautious when finding Riven teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Hecarim and Riven together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing 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
If you would like to truly master Hecarim to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Hecarim and Riven synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Hecarim incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Riven than with most other typical builds. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average winrate of 49.3% helping carry Riven with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.3% win rate overall.
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