Jax with Riven
How to Synergize Jax and Riven
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Jax Riven Synergy Summary
Best Jax vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jax and Riven
Tips for Playing as Jax with Riven
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Jax in LoL
The Jax 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, Jax sees a very large drop 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 Jax perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Jax is an ally to Riven, he gets a measurable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Riven does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Jax plays with Riven on the same team, he typically receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Riven does a poor job of covering Jax in team fights.
Synergies between Jax and Riven
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Is Jax better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect ally for Jax that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Riven is a very typical teammate for Jax. By locking into the same side as Jax, she improves their win rate by 0.5% to 51.3%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Jax and Riven that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Jax. That means Jax players should be careful when finding Riven allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Jax players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Jax and Riven together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Jax in order to synergize with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather 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 top finished items to focus on in your Jax and Riven synergy build include Trinity Force, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Jax bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Riven than with many other common builds. In fact, Jax boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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