Kalista with Riven
How to Synergize Kalista and Riven
based on 1,105 Kalista with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kalista Riven Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Riven
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Riven
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a very large drop in her 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 Kalista perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista tries to synergize with Riven, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Riven supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Riven.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Riven on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Riven does a decent job of protecting Kalista in team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Riven
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Riven?
There is no top synergy for Kalista that will no matter what be her best ally. However, overall, Riven is a decent ally for Kalista. By locking into the same side as Kalista, she increases their win rate by 2.8% to 50.2%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Kalista and Riven that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players need to be cautious when arranging Riven allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Kalista players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Kalista and Riven together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kalista to synergize with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Kalista and Riven synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when playing alongside Riven with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Kalista players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Kalista and Riven pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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