Janna with Riven
How to Synergize Janna and Riven
based on 3,452 Janna with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Janna Riven Synergy Summary
Best Janna vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Janna and Riven
Tips for Playing as Janna with Riven
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
Janna Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Janna in LoL
The Janna 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, Janna sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Riven helps Janna perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Janna tries to synergize with Riven, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This may signal that Riven supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Janna is played with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Moreover, when Janna plays with Riven on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of protecting Janna during team fights.
Synergies between Janna and Riven
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Is Janna better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top champion pairing for Janna that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, Riven is a pretty good teammate for Janna. By playing on the same team as Janna, she increases their win rate by 1.4% to 52.4%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Janna and Riven that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Janna. That means you should be very careful when arranging Riven comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by bringing Janna and Riven together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Riven teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna to pair well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Janna and Riven synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Janna included at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 52.4% when playing alongside Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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