Illaoi with Riven
How to Synergize Illaoi and Riven
based on 196 Illaoi with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Riven
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Riven
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her 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 Illaoi perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi is an ally to Riven, she gets a small increase in her total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Riven supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Riven on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Illaoi in teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Riven
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best companion for Illaoi that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Riven is a relatively poor companion for Illaoi. By playing on the same side as Illaoi, she decreases their win rate by -2.7% to 46.9%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Illaoi and Riven that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Illaoi. That means you should be careful when lining up Riven allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Illaoi and Riven together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Illaoi and Riven synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Riven than with many other typical builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 46.9% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Illaoi and Riven pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.9% win rate overall.
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