Kai'Sa with Riven
How to Synergize Kai'Sa and Riven
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Kai'Sa Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kai'Sa and Riven
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa with Riven
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Kai'Sa in LoL
The Kai'Sa 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, Kai'Sa 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 negative change shows that Riven helps Kai'Sa perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kai'Sa is paired with Riven, she observes a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Riven doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Kai'Sa plays with Riven on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Kai'Sa in teamfights.
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Is Kai'Sa better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kai'Sa that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. However, overall, Riven is a very typical teammate for Kai'Sa. By being on the same side as Kai'Sa, she decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 46.1%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Kai'Sa and Riven that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means you must be very careful when finding Riven comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, Kai'Sa players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Kai'Sa and Riven together, you may not be granting your team much magic damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Riven ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kai'Sa to synergize with Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Kai'Sa and Riven synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other common builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 46.1% when playing alongside Riven with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Kai'Sa players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.1% win rate overall.
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